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Scholarships for Health & Exercise Science students!

HES Department Scholarship Application

Please download, print, and complete the HES Department Scholarship Application to apply for the scholarships listed below. Bring the completed application to the HES Office or send it to .

The Mary Elizabeth Dyer Gwynn Scholarship Fund

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Betty Dyer attended Texas Christian University on a full music scholarship, completing her degree in 1941. As a teenager, she often performed as a piano soloist with the TCU orchestra and also served as organist for St. John’s Episcopal Church. Notwithstanding a virtuoso talent in music, her first love was the field of athletics. Betty was an avid sports enthusiast in her early years and competed in junior tennis tournaments as a child. As an adult, Betty pursued golf and tennis while teaching music as a career. In later life she competed in many 5K and 10K races in southern California, running the Honolulu Marathon in her 60’s. In her 80’s, she competes in women’s tennis league in Redlands and regularly bowls over 200 in league play. Betty dedicated her life to teaching and beneficially influenced the lives of many students. Because she made many personal sacrifices to insure her own children would receive a Christian education, they have dedicated this scholarship fund to her in assisting worthy students who are pursuing a degree in Health, Exercise Science and Athletics. 

Eligibility Criteria:
  • Health and Exercise Science majors
  • Worthy and deserving
  • Female

 Hamerslough Family Scholarship

With only a 6th grade education, Walter K. Hamerslough managed Claypool & Co. grocery store for more than 30 years and founded Little League baseball in Needles, California. His wife Frances and four other women founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Needles, California. Their daughter Noreen and her husband Commander Warren Kirkwood, USN retired, both graduated from La Sierra College in 1948. Walter S. Hamerslough, son of Walter K., graduated from La Sierra College in 1958 and has served for 30 years as professor of health and physical education before retiring in 2002. His wife, Darlene, graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences at La Sierra College and then the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Both of their children, Rhonda and Scott, are alumni of La Sierra, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. So much of the Hamerslough family’s energy has centered on La Sierra, that they established this endowment to help physical education or health science majors who demonstrate financial need and potential in their profession.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
  • Exercise Science or Health Science Major
  • Demonstrate potential for the profession
  • Have financial need

Tommy F. Kofoed Endowed Scholarship

Tommy F. Kofoed was born on a farm with no electricity or running water on the island of Bornholm, located in the Baltic Sea. Education was secondary to farming labor needs. He traveled to the Skodsborg School of Physical Therapy on the Danish mainland for further education, then served as a missionary to the Eskimos in Greenland. After teaching physical therapy at his alma mater, he traveled to Loma Linda University, La Sierra campus, to study and incorporate healthful living into his physical therapy curriculum. Tommy finished a doctorate in health science at Loma Linda University; developed a health education center at Porter Memorial Hospital in Colorado; served as health and temperance secretary at the Northern European Division in England and is a former faculty member of La Sierra University. He established this endowment to aide health science students with sound scholarship and financial need, who wish to serve others.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
  • Health Science majors only
  • Seventh-day Adventist Students only
  • GPA > 3.0
  • No Physical Education or Recreation majors
  • Financial need taken into consideration after GPA

Awards+Scholarships

La Sierra University also offers other institutional and privately donated scholarships to students. These funds usually do not need to be repaid and are based on your academic performance. Visit our Financial Aid page to learn more and take advantage!

Contact and Location

hes@lasierra.edu
(951) 785-2084
Alumni Pavilion Annex

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