The Tjaden Scholarships Fund & Larson Ambassador Award

Rod Tjaden has been a part of the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation story since the very beginning. He came to town in 1971, back when Medora was a division of Harold Schafer’s Gold Seal Company. In 1986, when the Schafer family established the TR Medora Foundation, Tjaden was made Executive Director—and he led a young organization toward a new century with confidence and character.

A year after his passing in 1997, the Tjaden Scholarship was established to support the many seasonal employees who come to work during the summer in Medora. Each year, around thirty outstanding employees are selected by an internal committee to receive a scholarship. Click here to read more about those scholarships and awards.