Village Names Winners Of Scholarship In Honor Of Late Tinley Park Commissioner

TINLEY PARK, IL — The Village of Tinley Park recently named the winners of the 2026 Reta Brudd Scholarship program, which awards seven $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors residing in Tinley Park with plans to attend a college, university, or vocational trade school in the fall. In addition to academic achievement, a substantial consideration in selecting winners is how much community service the students have performed.

Scholarships were awarded to Martin Dwyer (Lincoln-Way East), who will attend the University of Missouri to major in business; Maya Culbertson (Andrew), who will attend Illinois State University to major in education; Ava Oftedahl (Andrew), who will attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to major in speech and hearing sciences; Delaney Cole (Chicago Christian), who will attend Indiana Wesleyan University to major in psychology; Rayane Harir (TPHS), who will attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to major in electrical engineering; Elizabeth Barth (Andrew), who will attend Lewis University to study speech and language pathology; and Sarah Stewart Anderson (TPHS), who will attend Olivet Nazarene University to study vocal jazz and political science.

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The scholarship program is named in honor of Reta Brudd, who served as a commissioner for 46 years until her passing in April 2019. She contributed more than 20,000 hours of volunteer work and received many recognitions and awards.