BEND, Ore. -- The Center Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the $5,000, 2012 William K. Worrell Scholarship, Tyler J. Rockwood of Crook County High School.

 

Tyler was chosen from the nine 2011-12 High Desert Heroes.

 

Active in school government and athletics, Tyler is the class president, honor society president and has multiple athletic and scholastic awards.  He was the football, track, and wrestling team captain this year.  Tyler participates in the concert and jazz band and maintains a 3.95 GPA while taking honors classes.  Tyler’s goal is to become an engineer and “make the world a better place.”

 

Tyler, along with all of this year’s High Desert Heroes and 15 outstanding High School Juniors from Central Oregon, will be honored on May 9th at The Center Foundation Salute to Heroes awards dinner.  For more information on the dinner and to obtain tickets, contact The Center Foundation at 541-322-2399.

 

About the William K. Worrell and the Scholarship Foundation:

 

William K. Worrell, long time Bend resident and former superintendent of the Bend LaPine School District, lived his life as an educator, scholar, leader, entrepreneur, and athlete.  His belief that personal success, community success, business success, and the success of society in general, was based upon individual education, responsibility, respect, and toil.

 

William K. Worrell is remembered as an outstanding educational and civic leader, and the recipient of many awards such as the first Oregon Public School Superintendent of the Year, the University of Oregon’s Outstanding Educator Award, and he received honor from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center for his contribution to the Arts.

 

William K. Worrell believed in athletic competition, and through hard work and dedication won his way to election in the National Collegiate Wrestling Hall of Fame – Oregon Chapter.

 

Thus, the establishment of the William K. Worrell Scholarship and the High Desert Hero.  In concert with The Center Foundation, BendBroadband, Horizon Broadcasting Group, Pepsi, and Express Personnel Services, the intent is to establish a perpetual scholarship, awarded annually to one student/athlete chosen from the monthly winners.

 

Students are nominated by their coaches, teachers, and counselors based on the following characteristics:  academic excellence, school leadership, community service, and resiliency