For the second year in a row, Scott and Kristin Ramsey, owners of Ram-Z Fab, made a $1,000 scholarship available during LBCC’s third annual Night at the Knights event. This is one of two Ram-Z scholarships available to aspiring LBCC students, and both opportunities are made possible because Scott and Kristin believe in paying their success forward.
“Both my wife and I struggled financially when we were students. If it weren’t for our grants and scholarships, I don’t know that we would have made it,” says Ramsey.
In 1991, Scott started classes at LBCC in the Machine Tool program on a state-certified dislocated mill worker program. He was able to utilize unemployment benefits during this time and, in his second year at LBCC, received an academic scholarship. His wife Kristin, who he met in a math class, was working towards an administrative position in law enforcement at the time.
The two of them now own Ram-Z Fab Inc, a machine shop in Corvallis, where more than half of their hires are either LBCC alumni, or current LBCC students. Kristin will soon retire from the Oregon State Police after 25 years working as an evidence technician. Both are grateful to be in a position where they can pay their success forward and assist other college students who may be going through the same struggles they did.
A $1,500 Ram-Z Fab Scholarship is available every year for students who aspire to enter the Machine Tool Technology or Welding programs, just like Scott did.
Generous donors like the Ramseys are crucial to ensuring the LBCC Foundation has the ongoing ability to help students succeed.
