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Corbell Scholarship

The Kaskaskia College Foundation has announced that Alyssa Campbell of Centralia and Alex Newsom of Vandalia were recently named the recipients of the Oscar M. Corbell Memorial Scholarship.

Martin J. Corbell, son of the late Oscar M. Corbell, has given a substantial sum to the Kaskaskia College Foundation to endow the Oscar M. Corbell Memorial Scholarship Fund. Oscar Corbell was a leading educator and attorney who was the chief administrator for Centralia area schools from 1928-1940. He authored the bill that was signed into law as the Illinois Public Junior College Act of 1937, and he led the establishment of the junior college that became Kaskaskia College in 1965.  He served as college president from 1940 until his retirement in 1953. Above, from left to right, are Newsom, Campbell and Susan Batchelor, vice president of student services for Kaskaskia College.

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