Annual Scholarship

Scholarship applications available at Lake Mills High School and Lakeside High School. Check with your guidance office.

Applications are due April 12, 2024.

The Friends of the Library established a scholarship to support local high school graduates with advancing their educational goals. The first scholarship was awarded in 2015.

The Friends Scholarship applications are available through Lake Mills and Lakeside high schools. You don’t need to contact the friends or the library for an application. Contact your guidance counselor for information on the application and scholarship. If you’re wondering if you should apply, then you should apply.

2023 Scholarship Winner

The Friends of the L.D. Fargo Public Library, awarded a $1,500 scholarship to Carlee Zimmermann, a Lakeside Lutheran senior, at the May 10, 2023 Academic Awards Night at the school. Zimmermann will continue her education at UW-Stevens Point and is leaning toward a career in natural resources. She is the daughter of Brian and Jennifer of Jefferson.

Two people posing in front of a white painted concrete brick wall. On the left is Kathleen O'Hearn of the Friends of the Library. On the right is Carlee Zimmermann of Lakeside Lutheran High School who was awarded the 2023 Friends Scholarship for $1,500.

2023 Scholarship winner. Carlee Zimmermann of Lakeside Lutheran High School

2022 Scholarship Winner

The Friends of the L.D,Fargo Public Library Scholarship was awarded recently to Ava Belling, a Lake Mills High School graduate.  Belling will be continuing her education this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in communication sciences and disorders. She wants to work with children of all abilities and become a speech pathologist.  She is the daughter of Christina Schopf.  

2021 Scholarship Winner

Bronwyn Bond was awarded the Friends of the Library scholarship for 2021. Ms. Bond will receive $1,000 to continue her education at University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse to major in English. Bronwyn is the daughter of Stanley Bond and Cathy Daly.

2020 Scholarship Winner

The Friends of the L.D. Fargo Public Library awarded a $1000 scholarship to Alexis Flick, a Lake Mills High School senior of the Class of 2020.
Alexis will be continuing her education this fall at Columbia State Community College, Columbia, TN.  She has chosen to major in education with a focus on English because of her love for it and working with children.  Alexis is the daughter of Dennis and Sandra Flick.

2019 Scholarship Winner

Ellie Laws is the recipient of the 2019 Friends of the Library scholarship. Ms. Laws was awarded $1,000 to continue her education. Laws is enrolled at Brigham Young University to major in elementary education.

2018 Scholarship Winner

The Friends of the L.D. Fargo Public Library recently presented a $1000 scholarship to a Lake Mills High School senior.   Kathleen O’Hearn, Friends’ scholarship chairman, presened the scholarship to recent graduate
Katherine Hoggatt.  Hoggatt will continue her education at the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music this fall, majoring in Choral Music.  She is the daughter of Mark and Patty Hoggatt, Lake Mills.

2017 Scholarship Winner

This year the Friends of the L.D.Fargo Public Library Scholarship for $1000 was awarded to Alexis Schultz. a Lake Mills High School graduate.
An important part of each student’s application is the personal statement.  Alexis tells in her statement that from early on she remembers coming to the library.  Getting her own card was so exciting.  Books and learning have been important to her.
Her interest in agriculture is evident in her classes, activities, and participation in groups such as 4-H and FFA.
Alexis will be continuing her education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall.  She will major in agronomy hoping to eventually study plant breeding.
She is the daughter of Scott Schultz and Nancy Graff Schultz.

Alexis Schult, Scholarship winner, 2017

2016 Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to Chase Scheel who was chosen by the Friends of the Library to receive the 2016 Scholarship award. Chase will graduate from Lake Mills High School this May and will enroll at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI in the U.P. Chase plans to study Mechanical Engineering.

2015 Scholarship Winner

The Friends of the L.D. Fargo Library presented their $500 scholarship to 2015 Lake Mills High School senior, Megan Tickner.  Megan will continue her education at the UW-Whitewater, majoring in elementary education. She is the daughter of Michele Heiden, Watertown, and Kevin Tickner, Lake Mills.  The scholarship is offered to seniors at both high schools in Lake Mills as long as they are living within Jefferson County.  This is the fourth year that the Friends have given a scholarship.