Scholarships Available for Harrison Co. Students through Your Community Foundation
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on January 26, 2015 via Connect-Bridgeport.com
Since its beginning, the non-profit charitable organization Your Community Foundation (YCF) has awarded more than $1 million in scholarship assistance to students in North Central West Virginia.
Again this year, YCF is requesting applicants for scholarships to be awarded to students from Harrison Countyand elsewhere in the region.
“We’re fortunate that so many generous donors have established endowment funds which enable us to distribute scholarship assistance to worthy students in the area,” said Nicholas Austin, president of YCF. “We hope that many students will apply for these grants, and we look forward to another year of helping students to pursue their educational goals.”
Austinnoted that YCF scholarships are specific to the interests and desires of the various donors who established them, and most have unique qualifications that the donors have requested. “If a student is interested in one or more of these scholarships, we advise them to visit our web site to find specific qualification criteria and to fill out an online application,” he said.
Application deadline for scholarships is March 31. Scholarship information and applications are also available from school counselors in the region.
Applicants are requested for the following scholarships:
HARRISON COUNTY
- Andrew Martin "Bo" Harper Scholarship – Provides a one-time scholarship for a Monongalia or Harrison County student to attend an accredited higher education institution.
- J. Cecil Jarvis Scholarship – Provides scholarship assistance to one or more students from Harrison County who are enrolled in postgraduate studies in law, medicine or journalism at an accredited college or university.
- Rusty Mazzie Memorial Scholarship – Provides scholarship assistance to a Notre Dame High School graduate who demonstrates intent to enroll in a public or private higher education institution. Applicant must have participated in high school athletics and sustained a level of academic success throughout high school.
- The Catherine Flynn Morrison Memorial Scholarship Fund – Awards financial assistance to one or more deserving students graduating from Harrison County high schools who wish to become certified professional teachers in West Virginia and, toward that end, to pursue a bachelor's degree in elementary education from an accredited institution of higher education in the state.
REGIONAL (Includes Harrison County)
- Jean and Laurence DeLynn Scholarship - Provides a renewable four-year undergraduate award totaling up to $20,000 to high school graduates who are children or grandchildren of current or retired full-time employees of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, living or working in the greater Morgantown area.
- Jim Dunn/Friends of Track and Field Scholarship – Provides two $500 scholarships to any graduating West Virginia high school student who is planning to participate in cross country or track and field at the collegiate level.
- Monica Joyce and Randal W. Valentine Scholarship – Benefits a son, daughter, grandson or granddaughter of a member of I.U.O.E., Local #132 who has been accepted to an accredited, licensed or certified post-secondary trade or technical school, college or junior college.
- Lillian A. Devison Scholarship – Provides scholarship assistance to a graduate student at a West Virginia college or university who has been accepted into the graduate program at a college or university.
- Ernest Daniel Conaway, Raymond Guy Baker and Everett Reece Baker Memorial Scholarship Fund – Provides a $2,000 scholarship to a West Virginia resident pursuing a medical degree or students in medicine or undergraduate pre-majors or majors in engineering as full time students at West Virginia University.
YCF is a charitable, non-profit organization that encourages, develops and manages endowment funds and uses the net proceeds to support a long list of community programs and scholarships. The foundation manages assets and pledged assets of more than $11 million and administers more than 160 separate funds.
Information: YCF, P.O. Box 409, Morgantown, WV 26507, (304) 296-3433, www.ycfwv.org.
