Oregon Schools Foundation

Clay Alum, Dean Davis CHS '96 established the Art Farm Scholarship for Clay High School seniors in recognition of his passion for art and his belief in the powerful impact it can have on a person’s life. 🎨🩰🎬🎭🎼

Through this scholarship opportunity, he hopes to inspire and support a student from Clay High School while encouraging the next generation of young artists to pursue their creativity and talents.

Congratulations to Alei Hernandez as the 2026 Art Farm Scholarship recipient!

The Art Farm Scholarship requirements included an Essay prompt asking "How has Art impacted or been a part of your life? Please be heartfelt and detailed."

This scholarship was not restricted to the Fine Arts, it could be Performing Arts, Culinary Arts, Instrumental Arts, Voice, etc.

Alei's essay response demonstrated her artistic entrepreneurship and creative ingenuity during her time at Clay.

Way to go Alei! We cannot wait to see what your future brings! 🦅

Oregon Schools Foundation is proud to have helped facilitate a brand new scholarship opportunity for graduating seniors this year.

Congratulations to the following recipients of the
Derek Besgrove Memorial Scholarship at Clay High School.

💚Corey Bobbs💛
💚George Edwards💛
💚Madison Franke💛
💚Addison Hugueley💛
💚Annabelle Hunyor💛

This scholarship was established and funded by employees of Cenovus Energy in memory of their coworker, Derek Besgrove, Clay alum Class of 2000. Derek was an impactful husband, father, brother, son, friend and coworker. He was also an incredible Eagle fan, believing in and supporting all areas of Clay High athletics. He genuinely loved his hometown, and representing Eagle Nation.

Through this scholarship opportunity, they celebrate Derek’s legacy and love for the colors that he wore most often, green and gold.

Scholarship requirements included participation in Clay Athletics (Derek loved all Clay sports), good academic standing and performing community service.

We thank Derek's co-workers, Kirk Fortier and Chris Conley from Cenovus Energy, Toledo Refinery for presenting the scholarship to five deserving students. Sharing in this special moment were audience members, Erin Besgrove, Derek's wife and his parents, Jim and Kathy Besgrove.

To the Class of 2026, we cannot wait to see you FLY into your future! Go Eagles!🦅

Clay High School opened its doors to students on September 13, 1926. 📚📖📚

We invite you to celebrate 💯 years of tradition, family and community with us this fall.

Save the Date!
📆 Friday, September 4
⏰ 3-6pm Community Festival
🏉7pm Football Game

📆Saturday, September 5
⏰9-11am Guided School Tours

What a great night at the Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce Prism Awards at the amazing Maumee Bay State Park Lodge and Conference Center!

The night that brings together our community leaders, businesses, non-profits and volunteers for recognition and celebration.

The Oregon Schools Foundation was honored to receive the 35 Year Milestone Award.

Established in 1991, OSF has proudly served Oregon City Schools for nearly four decades. What began as a simple but powerful mission, providing classroom grants to support teachers and students, has grown into a community driven organization dedicated to expanding opportunities across our district.

Not only do we continue the original Founder's Grant program, but over the past fifteen years, our impact has grown exponentially thanks to the generosity, trust, and partnership of this incredible community.

Together with our amazing OSF team, we’ve expanded classroom grant opportunities from $2,000 a year to $100,000 in 2025. We've helped support transformative projects throughout the district, including the Charles Neal Press Box, Visitor Press Box, Carol-Ann Molnar Performing Arts Studio and the Dean Davis exterior mural at Clay High School.

We've also grown the foundation’s endowment from $131,000 to hitting our investment MILESTONE of $1 million just 2 week ago!

Each milestone represents far more than growth, it reflects a community that believes deeply in its schools, its students and its future.

I am honored to lead such an amazing group of people, and through my work with OSF, I have truly found my passion work.

Capping off an already unforgettable evening, I was incredibly humbled and surprised to be named 🏆PERSON OF THE YEAR🏆.

What an incredible HONOR! It surely takes a village, and I am so proud to just be a small part of the bigger team that makes this community a great place to be. 😀

This recognition also belongs to the many local businesses, partners, volunteers, educators, leaders and supporters who continuously work every day to make our schools and community stronger together.

I am so proud to work in a community that shows up for kids EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Congratulations to our PBF Energy Toledo Refining Company (TRC) Grant Winners today!

Greg Gonyer, Clay Career Tech Auto Instructor was approved for a much needed updated Auto Lab Diagnostic Scanner for cars. 🚗🚙🛻

and

The elementary music teacher team of Megan Porter, Liz Alleier and Don Noble were approved for Ukuleles in each elementary school for 3rd and 4th graders. How cool is that?!?! 🎼🎸🪕 Just wait parents...

Thank you to our community partner TRC for supporting our students in Oregon City Schools. We are so appreciative of your dedication to public education.

‼️BEST Day EVAH‼️
Favorite part of district PD Day for me... Announcing the Founder's Grant Winners!

Record number of Founder's Grants approved = 16 (WOW!)
Record 💰 amount for a single Grant round = $24,960.62
So many winners, that we had to take 2 pictures. 😎

Look at all the cool new ways kids will be impacted this fall:

✅Clay - Auto Shop Specific Tools - Greg Gonyer
✅Clay- Scientific Investigations Burn Room - Beth Turner
✅Jerusalem - Fractions for Everyone - Samantha Overman
✅Eisenhower - Life Skills in Action! with Tori Moore
✅Coy - Gym Alive! Dean Davis Coy Mural - Amy Molnar
✅Clay - Normatec Leg System - Matt Rankin (Trainer)
✅Eisenhower - Sensory Input in the Classroom - Tori Moore
✅Clay & Fassett - Cross Country Lynx Timing System - Joe Kiss
✅Coy - Sensory Support & Adaptive Seating - Amy Rankin
✅Eisenhower - Poppin' Up For Attendance - Tori Moore
✅Coy - Confidence from a Shoe - Kirstey Wilson
✅Wynn Center - Therapy Tools fo Kids! with Tricia Soltesz
✅Clay - Weight Room Expansion - Dave Ostrander
✅Clay Cheerleading - Themed Pom's - Nicole Roach
✅Girls Lacrosse - Equipment Bags - Jason Allen
✅Wynn Center - Sensory Regulatioin - Samantha O'Leary

Founder's Grants are directly funded by OSF's annual Frost Fest event. A huge shout out to our community supporters of Frost Fest. You are making a DIFFERENCE!