Students Receive Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside Scholarships

WALLA WALLA–The Walla Walla Community College Foundation is pleased to announce the Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside Scholarship recipients for 2024-2025. The generosity of lifetime Waitsburg farmers Rasty and Nona Ketcherside provides 14 students the opportunity to pursue their educational dreams at Walla Walla Community College this fall.

Recipients include Alyssa Anglin, Quinn Benavides, Lexus Brooks, Grace Coulston, Mary-Jo Day, Megan Forney, Madison Gallardo, Tatiana James, Phineas Kerr, Rachel Klein, Naomi Long, Spencer Mastrude, Johanna Pitcher and Jamileth Saldana.

The Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside Scholarship was established in 2002 with a donation from their estate to help support students from the surrounding areas. Rasty and Nona dedicated their lives to farming and the gentle care of their land and the animals on their farm between Dixie and Waitsburg. Their lifelong care and concern for those around them extend to each of the 2024-2025 Ketcherside Scholarship recipients, who will receive a scholarship to attend Walla Walla Community College.