LETU Aviation Student Whitney Brouwer from Raymond, Minnesota Earns $5,000 Scholarship

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Whitney Brouwer, LETU Senior Aviation Student

LONGVIEW, TX (02/06/2013)(readMedia)-- LeTourneau University student Whitney Brouwer, a senior flight science major from Raymond, Minn., was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the 2012 Air Race Classic champions Dianna Stanger and Victoria Holt, known as The Racing Aces. 

Brouwer dedicates her time to working with the university flight team and working at a local flight service center. She earned her private pilot's certificate in August 2010 and has logged over 250 flight hours.

Stanger and Holt won the 36th Air Race Championship in June 2012 following a four-day race covering nearly 2,900 statute-miles across eight states and making nine stops. They decided to donate their $5,000 winning purse and sponsorship money to empower a female flight student to realize her own dream of flight. The Federal Aviation Administration reports that only 7 percent of all pilots are women, and that percentage has not increased in nearly a century. 

Brouwer will use the scholarship to help pay her university expenses.

LETU Flight Science Chair Lauren Bitikofer says Brouwer is a top student."Whitney helps the aircraft mechanics with annual and 100-hour inspections by performing many tasks including: changing oil, cleaning spark plugs, and servicing wheels and brakes," Bitikofer said. "In more than 35 years of observing and teaching students, I would place her within the top 2 percent of all students for potential, ability, and personal integrity." 

On Friday, Feb. 1, Stanger and Calhoun Air Center representative Jasmine Gordon flew in to East Texas Regional Airport to present Brouwer with a ceremonial check during a 12:30 p.m. luncheon celebration at the Abbott Aviation Center. Stanger owns the Calhoun Air Center and manages a Cessna flight school and fixed base operator facility in Port Lavaca, Texas. 

LeTourneau University is an interdenominational Christ-centered university located in Longview, Texas, with undergraduate and graduate programs online and at education centers around the state. Academic majors include aviation, business, communication, computer science, criminal justice, education, engineering, health care administration, health science-nursing, human services, kinesiology, the liberal arts, the sciences and psychology.

Claiming every workplace in every nation as its mission field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life's work as a holy calling with eternal impact.