Rita and Alan Nabb moved to Bella Vista, Arkansas, in 2020. Alan graduated from DeWitt Community High School (now Central DeWitt) in 1963 and was elected to it’s Hall of Fame in 2014 as a Distinguished Graduate. He graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1967 with a double major in Mathematics and Physics. In 1968, he started his 48-year public service career by entering the United States Air Force and serving for 22 years retiring from the military in 1990. He spent the next 10 years in commercial industry supporting the Department of Defense and ended his public service career as a Project Manager and Senior Maintenance Manager with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington DC retiring in 2016.
Rita was a 1961 graduate of Liberal High School in Liberal, Kansas. She attended Panhandle State University in Goodwill, Oklahoma. She farmed for many years in Beaver County, Oklahoma, before moving to the Washington DC area in 1993. In 1993, Rita went to work with the Armenian Assembly of America in Washington, DC as Assistant to the Controller until her retirement in 2008.
After moving to NW Arkansas, Rita and Alan stayed busy with the Ozark Regional Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America presenting US Flag etiquette to fifth grade students in Benton County, AR and McDonald County, MO. In the past five years they have taught over 15,000 students how to properly display the US Flag and what you should and should not do with the US Flag.
This scholarship is to provide awards to students pursuing (1) a major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) or (2) certificate or licensing programs in a skilled trade or vocational program.
Applicants must plan to enroll in a full-time undergraduate STEM course of study at an accredited 2-year or 4-year college, university, or in a vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year. Recipients must attend the fall semester after their graduation from high school (no gap year) and all semesters must be consecutive. Awards are renewable for up to three years or until a bachelor’s degree is earned, whichever occurs first.