Megan Miller

Megan Miller, a third-year medical student from Dickinson, ND, is the first recipient of the Gertrude Dammen Scholarship. The scholarship is funded by the Gertrude Dammen/Allison Gentle Medical Education Endowment established last year with a $100,000 gift to the UND Foundation from Allison and Milton “Bud” Gentle, San Antonio, TX, daughter and son-in-law of Gertrude Dammen. Miller, who earned an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Colorado, Boulder, served as treasurer of the student section of the local chapter of the American Medical Association and chair of the Pediatric Interest Group. She represents her class on the state medical association’s Commission on Medical Services and is a member of the class’s Social Committee. In 2002, she received the ASCP Book Award.

The Dammen scholarship is intended for a medical student who has a proven record of academic achievement, the strong potential to succeed in the future, and financial need. The scholarship will be renewed if the recipient continues to meet scholarship criteria. Preference is given to a student who graduated from a North Dakota high school.

Mrs. Dammen, a native of Wisconsin, earned a degree in music from Augsburg College in Minneapolis and ventured to North Dakota where she taught all subjects through eighth grade in rural schools including those near Blanchard and Mayville. She and her husband, George, also a teacher, started farming in 1939 and bought a farm near Mayville in 1940; the farm remains in the family.