Breauna Schroeder Receives Scholarship

WARRENSBURG, Mo – Breauna Schroeder of Butler, Mo has been awarded the Ada M. Griffin Scholarship from the University of Central Missouri Foundation for a student pursuing a degree in teacher education.

SCHOLARSHIP BACKGROUND:

Ada M. and Mary M. Griffin were sisters who grew up and spent their adult lives in the Rich Hill area of Bates County, Missouri.

Ada M. Griffin was born in Papinville, Missouri on March 10, 1913. After attending elementary and secondary school in Bates County schools, she attended University of Central Missouri. Ada graduated cum laude from Central in 1947 and moved back to Rich Hill to teach in the rural schools of Foster and Metz. Later in her career, she taught at Rockville, Hume, and Rich Hill, Missouri, and Prescott, Kansas, where she retired in 1972.

Mary M. Griffin was born August 20, 1911. She, too, attended elementary and secondary school in Bates County schools before first attending University of Central Missouri in 1931. She taught in a one-room school near Rich Hill during the academic year in order to pay for her tuition at Central during the summers. She taught in rural schools before being offered a teaching position at Rich Hill High School after the male teacher who taught social studies was drafted in World War II.

Breauna is the daughter of Gene and Michelle Schroeder of Butler, and is a junior studying Middle School Education.

Breauna Schroeder Receives Scholarship