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Fund started as tribute to student
Memorial scholarship to benefit music student with passion for teaching
Lindsey Lewandowski
Issue date: 12/5/05 Section: Campus News
He attended the high school and marched in its band, which Atherton worked with when Sazama was a senior in high school.
Because Atherton worked with the woodwind players and Sazama played drums, he said he didn't work with him personally.
"Branden was very involved," he said, "and his last work was working with kids and music, so I think that is a very appropriate way to honor Branden."
Sazama said he is pretty interested in checking out the Northwestern Bank Marching Band Scholarship, which began formulating following the bus accident that Sazama also was in. He sat behind Atherton on the bus.
That tragedy wasn't just one that affected Chippewa Falls, but the Chippewa Valley and UW-Eau Claire, said Jerry Jacobson, president of Northwestern Bank in Chippewa Falls.
"I was trying to think of ways to sort of mesh that," he said of the thought process behind the scholarship idea he brought to Fisher.
Two students in the Blugold Marching Band will receive $500 scholarships, assuming they are returning the following fall, Dickerson said. He, as well as three or four other faculty members who are involved with the band, will make up a committee that will select the students in May.
Fisher said the scholarship is a "great" tribute to the students who are "going out and dedicating their time to serving the Chippewa Valley."
Because Atherton worked with the woodwind players and Sazama played drums, he said he didn't work with him personally.
"Branden was very involved," he said, "and his last work was working with kids and music, so I think that is a very appropriate way to honor Branden."
Sazama said he is pretty interested in checking out the Northwestern Bank Marching Band Scholarship, which began formulating following the bus accident that Sazama also was in. He sat behind Atherton on the bus.
That tragedy wasn't just one that affected Chippewa Falls, but the Chippewa Valley and UW-Eau Claire, said Jerry Jacobson, president of Northwestern Bank in Chippewa Falls.
"I was trying to think of ways to sort of mesh that," he said of the thought process behind the scholarship idea he brought to Fisher.
Two students in the Blugold Marching Band will receive $500 scholarships, assuming they are returning the following fall, Dickerson said. He, as well as three or four other faculty members who are involved with the band, will make up a committee that will select the students in May.
Fisher said the scholarship is a "great" tribute to the students who are "going out and dedicating their time to serving the Chippewa Valley."
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