Claysburg Education Foundation Announces Scholarship

The Claysburg Education Foundation is pleased to announce that The Bruno and Lena DeGol Family Foundation has awarded a $1,500 annual scholarship award to the Foundation for a period of ten (10) years to be awarded annually in memory of Donald E. Witherspoon to a Claysburg-Kimmel senior who will be pursuing a four-year degree.

Witherspoon was a Greenfield-Kimmel, now Claysburg-Kimmel School District graduate in the Class of 1960. Witherspoon was also president of the Blair County Chapter of the NAACP until his death on Dec. 26, 2020.

Witherspoon was well-known both in the Claysburg and Altoona...