Poplar Bluff, Missouri - Montana Chitwood was Poplar Bluff High School’s fourth recipient of the $400 Kyle Dicken Memorial Scholarship. 

Chitwood plans to study music education at Missouri State University in Springfield. “She’s in the marching band, jazz, concert – pretty much her whole schedule is band,” said instructor Stephen Winters, half-jokingly.

Curtis and Wanda Dicken, the grandparents of the late Kyle, who would have graduated in the Class of 2014, would like to grow their endowment fund, which they say is the only scholarship available exclusively to local band students. For more information, email the Community Foundation of the Ozarks at awingo@cfozarks.org or call 573-803-1248.