Mrs. Ethel K. (Russeau) Fountain
Ethel K. Fountain graduated from Monroe High School. She worked as a switchboard operator back in the day when you had to plug the connection into an actual switchboard. In her later years, she worked for The Monroe Evening News as a paper assembler, putting all the inserts and ads into the paper.
Ethel was a lifelong member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church and a member at the Monroe Senior Center, where she frequently enjoyed a good game of euchre.
Ethel believed that education was the key to earning a good living. She was a bit old-fashioned in her way of thinking. She thought that a man was responsible for providing for his family and with education or training he could support a family and get ahead.
Ethel Russeau was born and lived until the age of 90 in Monroe. She had two sisters and three brothers. While still young, her mother contracted polio and was never able to walk again. Ethel helped around the house and ‘mothered’ her younger siblings. She married Ronald J. Fountain at St. Michael’s in Monroe in 1952. Ethel and Ron had no children, but were a special part of the lives of dozens of nieces and nephews.
Ethel and Ron never had typically high-paying employment but were hard workers and excellent savers and investors. Several years ago, realizing that she had amassed an amount of money that could make a large impact upon the recipient, started to research options. Monroe County Community College turned out to be the right fit. She had grown up poor, in a family that couldn’t afford to send anyone to college. She especially wanted to help the fathers of young, struggling families achieve better employment through education and training.
Impact
Recipients:
2019-2020 John Clagg
2019-2020 Jazlyn Clark
2019-2020 Kyle Haener
2019-2020 Dominic Hall
2019-2020 Jessica Hutson
2019-2020 Cody Leach
2019-2020 Michelee Rigdon
2019-2020 John Robbins
2019-2020 Spencer Stevens
2019-2020 Dominic Tedora
2019-2020 Destiny Watkin
2019-2020 Kendra Wegienka
2019-2020 Amber Wiener
2020-2021 Timothy Burns
2020-2021 Jazlyn Clark
2020-2021 Douglas Dolezal
2020-2021 Dominic Hall
2020-2021 Noah Harrington
2020-2021 Jessica Hutson
2020-2021 Hakim Karti
2020-2021 Cody Leach
2020-2021 Caleb Nisley
2020-2021 Nathan Nisley
2020-2021 Scott O’Grady
2020-2021 John Robbins IV
2020-2021 Destiny Watkin
2020-2021 Bradford Zapor
2021-2022 Randall Brooks
2021-2022 Denver Brown
2021-2022 Erich Calkins
2021-2022 Robert Cicero
2021-2022 John Clark
2021-2022 Brandon Clegg
2021-2022 Seth Dandoy
2021-2022 Seth Davis Ellison
2021-2022 Nicole Harbison
2021-2022 Noah Harrington
2021-2022 Gabi Jaghnoun
2021-2022 Zachary Prange
2021-2022 Madison Sampson
2021-2022 Curtis Vickre
2022-2023 Trinity Adams
2022-2023 Brandon Daniels
2022-2023 Brennan Dykes
2022-2023 Griffin Harmer
2022-2023 Wyatt Larrow
2022-2023 Marc Lemle
2022-2023 Connor Martin
2022-2023 Zachary Miller
2022-2023 Jacqueline Pacheco
2022-2023 Tyler Philp
2022-2023 Madison Sampson
2022-2023 Ashley Thompson
2022-2023 Nathan Whiteside
2022-2023 Bradford Zapor
2023-2024 Jake Bradley
2023-2024 Denny Davidson
2023-2024 Miranda Dickerson
2023-2024 Timothy Hall
2023-2024 Kayla Harmon
2023-2024 Dustin Holycross
2023-2024 Andrew LaBeau
2023-2024 Marc Lemle
2023-2024 Travis Lindquist
2023-2024 Brendan Marcangelo-Skipper
2023-2024 Zachary Miller
Winter 2024 Brennan Dykes
Winter 2024 Marten Kooi
2024-2025 Aaron Brow
2024-2025 Jameson Burns
2024-2025 Gabriel Butler
2024-2025 Christian Coakley
2024-2025 Miranda Dickerson
2024-2025 Kayla Harmon
2024-2025 Dylan Hurley
2024-2025 Andrew LaBeau
2024-2025 Aaron Nabozny
2024-2025 Daniel Presa
2024-2025 Alexander Topjian
2024-2025 Sarah Williams