15 members of the Class of 2024 will each receive a $725 Evelyn Krueger Jones Scholarship from the Madison Central School Educational Foundation. They are: Keara Wagner, Jessica Tappe, Ella Peterreins, who will attend South Dakota State University; Manuel DeCastro & Taylor Buthe, will attend Montana State University; Spencer Reverts, who will attend USF; Georgianna Kolbeck & Dylan Riedel will attend DSU; Anna Blessinger, who will attend Georgia Institute of Technology; Danny Cao, who will attend University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Margaret Engebretson, who will attend Augustana; Audrey Nelson & Karly Lurz, who will attend USD; Katie Klein, who will attend Mitchell Tech, and Aaron Hawkes, who will be attending Brigham Young. These students graduated with a 4.0 or greater grade point average, which qualified them to receive an Evelyn Krueger Jones Scholarship.

Renae Prostrollo, MCSEF Director commented: “This year, over $45,000 in scholarship money was awarded to members of the Class of 2024 through the generous support of our scholarship donors. These graduates should be very proud of their accomplishments.”

        Evelyn Krueger was a member of the Madison High School Class of 1930.  After graduation, she obtained her teaching certificate at Eastern State Normal School and taught for one year in Junius.  She earned a B.S. degree in library science from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and a B.S. in nursing from Yale University.  Evelyn married Frank Jones and settled in Delaware where she worked as a teacher, librarian, and nurse there and in Washington, D.C.  Three years after her husband’s death in 1996, Mrs. Jones moved to Bethel Lutheran Home in Madison, where she passed away on September 28, 2001.  The couple had no children and were philanthropic, giving back to their communities to support causes they felt were important, such as higher education.

The Madison Central School Educational Foundation was one of the recipients of the couple’s philanthropy. The Evelyn K. Jones Endowment’s earnings are used to fund these scholarships in her name. Dr. John Sweet, former District Superintendent, credited Evelyn Jones’ generous gift as being the impetus that really got the Educational Foundation going. The MCSEF has awarded 175 Evelyn K. Jones Scholarships since 2004.