Baylee Schultz, a student at Wilmot High School in Wilmot, South Dakota, is the winner of the second annual James & Jeanne Arneson Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to graduates of Wilmot High School who display an aptitude in creative writing by authoring a short story.
Baylee’s story, “The Market,” was chosen as the winner by novelist Merry Jones and the scholarship selection committee.
“The Market” opens with a compelling and disquieting question — “Have you ever wanted to just fall out of your own body?” — and explores the terror of human trafficking.
Baylee was presented with the $250 scholarship during Wilmot High School’s Academic Awards Program. She also received a signed copy of Merry Jones’ latest thriller, Child’s Play.
Special thanks to Wilmot High School principal Larry Hulscher and especially English teacher Danielle DeGreef for all of their help.
You can learn more about the scholarship, including the reason it goes to a student at Wilmot High School, right here.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
If you’d like to make a tax-deductible (at least in the U.S.) contribution to the James & Jeanne Arneson Memorial Scholarship Fund, the South Dakota Community Foundation makes it easy.
You can contribute with a credit card online. (If you contribute online, SDCF covers all transaction fees. There’s no cost to you or the fund.)
Or you can contribute by sending a check made payable to “James & Jeanne Arneson Memorial Scholarship Fund” to:
South Dakota Community Foundation
P.O. Box 296
Pierre, SD 57501
No contribution is too small. Thank you!
Erik Arneson 