Roy Rogers Scholarship Fund Portsmouth Area Community Exhibits established the Roy Rogers Scholarship Fund at the Scioto Foundation on September 9, 1986 through donations of $1,000 each from several organizations and businesses. Founding gifts were received from the Portsmouth Area Recognition Society, the Marriott Corporation and the Lucasville Sesquicentennial Committee. Beginning in 1987, earnings from the fund have been used to provide scholarship assistance to Scioto County, Ohio high school graduates that have participated in 4-H for at least one year. As a child living in Scioto County , Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers) was a member of the West Side Pioneers 4-H Club and won first place in the 1927 Scioto County Fair swine contest. Rogers frequently credited the late Guy Bumgarner, his 4-H advisor and school teacher, with putting his life on the right track. The Portsmouth Area Community Exhibits has continued to support the growth of the Fund through annual contributions raised during the local Roy Rogers Festival honoring and later memorializing Roy Rogers.

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Kyle Hickerson is the 2008 recipient of the Roy Rogers Scholarship. Kyle will be attending Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio starting in the Fall. He will study agriculture. Kyle is a 2008 Graduate of Northwest High School in Scioto County. LaRue Horsley, Roy Rogers Festival Chairman, is pictured here with Kyle after Kyle was awarded his well deserved scholarship.

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Email: Roy Rogers Festival - Portsmouth, OH

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Portsmouth, OH 45662

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