I think that would be great! I wonder how much 'seed' money we need to start such a scholarship.

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I believe Sanday Bargainnier mentioned last year the idea of a scholarship and I have been thinking about it as well. What do you guys think of creating a scholarship fund for a graduating THS senior every year? I think between $500-$1000 would be a nice amount, of course, depending on what we could collectively contribute. What do you guys think?

That's a great idea Virginia. Will college costs skyrocketing every little bit helps.




Have a happy day everybody!!


Theresa

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I think that would be great! I wonder how much 'seed' money we need to start such a scholarship.

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I believe Sanday Bargainnier mentioned last year the idea of a scholarship and I have been thinking about it as well. What do you guys think of creating a scholarship fund for a graduating THS senior every year? I think between $500-$1000 would be a nice amount, of course, depending on what we could collectively contribute. What do you guys think?

I just want to warn every one. My husband is involved with a group that gives a Scholarship every year, and every year there is a lot of work involved with it. You have to determine who or how the people will apply. Will they write on a topic or be of a certain group? Then how will you narrow it down? If you get 25 people applying which one gets it? I know that my nephew will be graduating this next year. He is very smart, but lost his mother last year... How do we determine who is needy enough. Then Who determines who is the person most deserving??? Every Spring we get 50 papers on a certain subject (determined by the group giving the scholarship.) After that they keep narrowing it down by voting, until they get to the final 5. They take the last 5 out to a nice dinner and have them each give a little speech on the subject (5 minutes) the next meeting they vote and whom ever wins. It is only a couple thousand dollar! but a lot of work for the people giving it.




Most of the people in out group would never meet these people face to face.




Not trying to put a damper on it. Great Idea. Lot of Work.

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That's a great idea Virginia. Will college costs skyrocketing every little bit helps.




Have a happy day everybody!!


Theresa

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I think that would be great! I wonder how much 'seed' money we need to start such a scholarship.

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I believe Sanday Bargainnier mentioned last year the idea of a scholarship and I have been thinking about it as well. What do you guys think of creating a scholarship fund for a graduating THS senior every year? I think between $500-$1000 would be a nice amount, of course, depending on what we could collectively contribute. What do you guys think?

Hi everyone,

I think that a scholarship program is an wonderful idea. My aunt and uncle (Robert and Janet Benjamin) established a wrestling scholarship at THS in honor of their son Dale. You could ask them how it works. We also have a scholarship program that I'm involved in at HP and it's wonderful. It can be a very simple process, many are not. Are there any financial wizards out there from our class who could run the numbers on this to see how much seed $ we'd need. We would have to designate a program manager and committee to run the program. Depending upon how involved we want to get, we could establish this as a 501(c)3 org and sign up on Guidestar.com. By doing this, other sources of funding would be able to "give" directly to our scholarship program. Just a thought.

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I just want to warn every one. My husband is involved with a group that gives a Scholarship every year, and every year there is a lot of work involved with it. You have to determine who or how the people will apply. Will they write on a topic or be of a certain group? Then how will you narrow it down? If you get 25 people applying which one gets it? I know that my nephew will be graduating this next year. He is very smart, but lost his mother last year... How do we determine who is needy enough. Then Who determines who is the person most deserving??? Every Spring we get 50 papers on a certain subject (determined by the group giving the scholarship.) After that they keep narrowing it down by voting, until they get to the final 5. They take the last 5 out to a nice dinner and have them each give a little speech on the subject (5 minutes) the next meeting they vote and whom ever wins. It is only a couple thousand dollar! but a lot of work for the people giving it.




Most of the people in out group would never meet these people face to face.




Not trying to put a damper on it. Great Idea. Lot of Work.

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That's a great idea Virginia. Will college costs skyrocketing every little bit helps.




Have a happy day everybody!!


Theresa

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I think that would be great! I wonder how much 'seed' money we need to start such a scholarship.

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I believe Sanday Bargainnier mentioned last year the idea of a scholarship and I have been thinking about it as well. What do you guys think of creating a scholarship fund for a graduating THS senior every year? I think between $500-$1000 would be a nice amount, of course, depending on what we could collectively contribute. What do you guys think?

Yes I did mention this awhile ago. I like the idea, and I appreciate Mary's reality check----however, I think maybe we shoud investigate a bit and ask THS how to go about it. Maybe they can do the ground work and selection process--we can just give the money and establish the criteria.




Be careful that we don't limit it to "college" in teh traditional sense----trade schools, etc are just as important--and this coming from a college professor!




I like criteria such as: community service (> 1 year of service), innovative ideas that contributed to the spirit of the graduating class, demonstrates respect for diversity (i.e. socioeconmic status in Towanda--since ethnic diveristy is rare), good grades, acceptance to a program in higher education, maybe 1 male and 1 female?, showing grace and humor in teh classroom, extracurricular actcities adn the comuunity! ( We should have it represent our class!)Maybe something about using technology to improve communication---look what has happened to us and the good that has come from it?




Thanks for listening!


Hey Dan Foster--saw you walking yesterday with coffee into Smeal


Sandy B

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I believe Sanday Bargainnier mentioned last year the idea of a scholarship and I have been thinking about it as well. What do you guys think of creating a scholarship fund for a graduating THS senior every year? I think between $500-$1000 would be a nice amount, of course, depending on what we could collectively contribute. What do you guys think?