The Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation and Girod Scholarship Committee are pleased to announce that Ross Wopat of Lebanon and Nicholas Blake of Sweet Home have been named the 2010 Girod Scholars. Both received $6,000 toward their medical school tuition during the 2010-11 academic year.

Wopat, the son of Ellen and Rick Wopat, MD, is completing his second year at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Blake, the son of Zsuzsa and Alan Blake, MD, will begin his studies at Oregon Health & Science University this fall.

Both students have also spent many hours volunteering locally and internationally. Wopat has volunteered for several community causes, and Blake has volunteered in clinics in Mexico and Bolivia.

The late Frank Girod, MD, was one of the founding members of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. His family awards this scholarship every year in Dr. Girod’s honor to students from East Linn County who are pursuing careers in medicine.

For more information about the Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation, visit www.samhealth.org/lchf.