Wilburn and Helen Wheeler Scholarship in Mathematics

The Wilburn and Helen Wheeler Scholarship is awarded to a freshman or sophomore student majoring in mathematics. Minimum qualifications include: 2.50 grade point average; full-time enrollment (12 semester hours or more) in the business program; and U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Wilburn and Helen Wheeler had a long association with South Plains College. Mr. Wheeler was a member of the college’s founding faculty, teaching math and serving as the college’s first band director from 1958 to 1974. Mrs. Wheeler worked many years in the college library. Two scholarship programs were established by family, friends and former students.