Lilah Aas, president of the Education Foundation of Albert Lea, presents a check for a $500 scholarship to Shalin Hoelscher, class of 2011 of Albert Lea High School. Shalin is attending Bemidji State University in northern Minnesota. She is the first recipient of the Shirley M. (Tennyson) Bartholomew Scholarship. Bartholomew is an ALHS graduate who has established this scholarship to be managed and awarded annually through the Education Foundation of Albert Lea. For this scholarship a graduate must have at least a 3.0 GPA and be a student in good standing after the first semester attending a post-secondary institution.