Milo C. Albrecht Nursing Scholarship

Milo Albrecht spent his first 8 years of school in the same place: a one-room schoolhouse at Morton, Illinois.  In high school he experienced a very different type of school, attending the area public school.  While there, Albrecht says, he excelled in “the industrial arts and mechanical drawing.”  In fact, he still has a desk and a cedar chest he made during that time.

Following high school, Albrecht had his eye on a college education.  However, he had to put off that dream for a year because his parents said it was “too much to have two boys in college at once,” not only because of money, but also because of the loss of hands on the farm.  But after a couple years, his brother left college to return to the farm and Albrecht was able to experience yet another different education, this one the unique education of Goshen College.

However, after three semesters at GC, Albrecht was once again called back to the farm when his brother went into Civilian Public Service as a Conscientious Objector.  Albrecht stayed working on the farm until 1947 when, at the age of 26, he traveled to Poland for nine months with Mennonite Central Committee.  Working as a Farm Machinery Instructor, Albrecht says he “saw lots of destruction” during that time, which would stay with him for the rest of his life.

When his service was finished, he once again returned to Morton.  This time, however, it was to work on his own farm; he and his brother rented their home farm together, where Albrecht raised feeder cattle and his brother had dairy cattle.  Later, while they both continued to farm, they did so separately.

It was around this time that Albrecht first began giving to Goshen College.  He believed that giving was important but that “not everyone could do it.”  He realized that he was in a position where he was able to give, so he put money towards student scholarships, knowing from his own experience how important they were.

Today, Albrecht has decided that he’d like the money he is leaving Goshen College to go towards creating a nursing scholarship.  While he has never studied medicine himself, it is a subject that has always intrigued him; more recently in life, he has experienced first-hand the value of nurses.  Living at Christian Apostolic Restmor in Morton, Illinois, Albrecht always has a nurse nearby, checking in on him.  He says that his health is “not all that good, but not all that bad either.”

Milo’s cousin, Herb Roth, has assisted Milo in recent years with managing both his farmland and his finances.  With Herb’s help, Milo decided to gift a substantial amount of stock to Goshen College in 2014 to be added to his scholarship fund.