B&L Scholarships 2020

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Eaton

 

 

B&L INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Recipients of Dick Laney Memorial Scholarship

 

Bridgman, MI, June 9, 2019 – B&L Information Systems announced the 2020 recipients of the Dick Laney Memorial Scholarship, Meredith Gacek, Megan Lesch, and Allison Schmidt.  The scholarship was established in 2007 as a memorial to B&L Information System’s founder, Dick Laney and this year brings the total number of scholarship recipients to eighteen.

 

Meredith Gacek will be a freshman this fall at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  Meredith will major in Business and eventually attend law school.  Since the age of four, Meredith has enjoyed dance, including competing in various regional and national competitions. In addition to dance, Meredith was a student mentor, dance instructor, student representative for her church, on the pom team as well as earning student of the month.  She is the daughter of Laurel and Matt Gacek of Stevensville, Michigan.  

Megan Lesch will be a freshman this fall at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan where she will be majoring in Computer Information Systems. Megan has received the CTE award in Graphic Arts. She has enjoyed stage crew for four years and worked on the musical, Newsies, for CMW teenstock at LMC. She is the daughter of Connie and Nick Lesch of St. Joseph, Michigan.

Allison Schmidt will be a freshman this fall at Valparaiso University in Indiana where she will be majoring in Bioengineering. She was on the volleyball, track, power lifting and basketball teams and went to state for power lifting and track. Her academic honors include Academic All State in Track, BCS Academic Scholar Award and National Honor Society. She is the daughter of Howard and Deanna Schmidt of Sawyer Michigan.

 

The scholarship is available to children of current B&L employees who attend accredited colleges after high school graduation.

 

About B&L Information Systems

B&L Information Systems is the global leader in cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for foundries, die casters and investment casters. Since 1976, B&L has implemented their unique ERP solutions at over 400 metalcasting operations, making their cloud-based Odyssey ERP match how metalcasters operate.  With Odyssey, metalcasters maximize their resources, minimize costs, and make better decisions faster.

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