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The Garst Museum’s Executive Director, Clay Johnson, Ph.D. presents the
Dr. Harry G. Thomas Scholarship award to Melanie Stall.
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Darke County Historical Society
Dr. Harry G. Thomas
Medical Scholarship Awarded
The Darke County Historical Society is pleased to announce that the
Harry G. Thomas Medical Scholarship award for the 2014-2015 academic
year has been presented to John Sullenbarger, Bradley Subler, Amy
Wilcox, Patrick Mescher, and Melanie Stall. All receipients are
graduates of Darke County high schools and are currently attending
medical school.
The H.G. Thomas Medical Scholarship program, administered by the Darke
County Historical Society, was established and funded in 1971 by Lowell
Thomas and his sister Pherbia Thomas Thornburg, in memory of their
father Dr Harry G. Thomas. The program was later supplemented by a
bequest from Lowell Thomas’s will, with the interest generated by the
fund being used to offer scholarships.
Dr. Thomas received a degree from the University of Cincinnati Medical
School, practiced in Iowa & Colorado, and served during WWI in
British hospitals, leaving the war as a Colonel in General Pershing’s
army. Dr. Thomas died in 1952 and is buried in Arlington National
Cemetery. Both he and his wife, Harriet Wagner, were descendants of
Darke County pioneers.
Eligibility for the Harry G. Thomas Medical Scholarship requires the
applicant to be a resident of Darke County, a graduate of a Darke
County high school, and must have been accepted into a medical
school.
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