Donor Legacies
Gift of a Lifetime
Roy Rogers
"King of the Cowboys"
Portsmouth Community Exhibits, Inc. established the Roy Rogers Scholarship Fund at the Scioto Foundation on September 9, 1986 through donations of $1,000 each from several organization and businesses. Founding gifts were received from the Portsmouth Area Recognition Society, the Marriott Corporation and the Lucasville Sesquicentennial Committee.
Beginning in 1987, earnings from the fund have been used to provide scholarship assistance to Scioto County, Ohio high school graduates that have participated in 4-H and attend Shawnee State University.
As a child living in Scioto County, Rogers was a member of the West Side Pioneers 4-H Club and won first place in the 1927 Scioto County Fair swine contest. Rogers frequently credited the late Guy Bumgarner, his 4-H advisor and school teacher, with putting his life on the right track.
The Portsmouth Community Exhibits, Inc. has continued to support the growth of the Fund through annual contributions raised during the local Roy Rogers Festival honoring and later memorializing Roy Rogers.
The Roy Rogers Festival