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Financial Aid & Scholarships

The Legacies Behind Our Scholarships

Welcome to our community of scholarship benefactors and namesakes. The donor-funded scholarships awarded at BYU-Hawaii support many of our institutional awards and represent more than just financial support; they are a link to the extraordinary alumni, friends, and visionary donors who shaped our institution's history.

Each fund listed below carries the name of an individual or family whose leadership, academic excellence, or profound generosity left an indelible mark on our campus. By exploring these biographies, you can connect with their living legacies and discover their inspiring stories and values, which you can, in turn, help carry forward into the future.

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A. Howard and Clara Dean O. Christensen Endowed Scholarship Fund

A. HOWARD CHRISTENSEN (1908-1998) grew up on a ranch in Ephraim, Utah.
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Trevor & Clover Christensen Scholarship

TreVor Christensen was born in Ephraim, Utah on August 30, 1915, to Oscar Ovid and Mary Lund Christensen.
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George Peter & Tryphena Mayer Brimhall Garff Scholarship in Education

Distributed to all recipients of the Garff Education Scholarship, which is awarded at Brigham Young University-Hawaii to a student seeking a degree in education with the intent to be a teacher.
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Charles W. Lloyd Endowed Scholarship

Charles William Lloyd was born on November 29, 1913 in Spanish Fork, Utah USA, the son of William Morgan and Alice E. Mellor Lloyd.
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The Glenn & Olive W. Nielson Scholarship Fund

Glenn E. Nielson died at his home in Cody, Wyoming Monday, Oct. 19, 1998. He is survived by his wife, Olive, their five children, 35 grandchildren and 68 great-grandchildren.
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Bennett H. "Lou" and Anna Mae Oelkers Endowed Scholarship Fund

While they never touched a handcart, Lou and Anna Mae Oelkers were truly Latter-day Saint Pioneers. Lou and Anna Mae were raised on farms near Dalbo, Minnesota. L.
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