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THE EDUCATORS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The Head Master’s Scholarship Fund is changed to “St. Johns Educators Scholarship Fund”
The 2nd Annual Educators Scholarship Fund is developed to honor educators from St. Johns Parish and to provide financial assistance as outlined in the stated purpose. These educators were the corner stone of our community who served as mentors, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, installing great values in their students and provided them with the necessary tools to go on in life to become very successful, obtaining professions such as Doctors, Lawyers, Scientists, Chemists, Educators, Nurses and Entrepreneurs and so on, the list is endless without limitation to professions.
The following are some of the names of these educators who have passed on; they dedicated their entire lives to preparing the young minds of our youth to accept the challenges of academia:
Mr. A. R. L. Miller; Mr. R. J. L. Pitt; Mr. J. O. Fleming; Mr. Gerald O’C Vincent;
Mr. F. J. Louison; Mr. A. E. Williams; Mr. E. L. N. Peter; Ms. Daisy Ferguson;
Mrs. Anna Branch; Mrs. Phyllis Scott Lorraine; Mrs. Daphne Williams;
Mr. Percival Louison; Mr. Balbinus Nelson; Mrs. Ursula Baptiste;
Mr. McQueen Baptiste; Mr. Winston Dragon; B. J. Langaigne
Mrs. Molly Medford; Mrs. Veda Donovan; Ms. Hinds; Mrs. Cecilia Peter;
Ms. Fedora Grant; Ms. DaNouna DeCoteau; Mr. Davis Crowe;
Mr. Desmond Thomas; Ms. Mary John and Mr. George Louison.
Stated Purpose of the Educators Scholarship:
The Educators Scholarship fund is a need-base scholarship that is intended to provide a one-time annual relief for five years in the form of financial assistance to the outstanding, financially challenged student who fits the criteria established below.
The Student’s Responsibility:
1. The student must have gained entry into a secondary school based on the results of the common entrance or school leaving examination of the current year.
2. The student must submit an application to the grant Administrator with attachments of his/her report card for the last two years; financial condition as it presently exist and his/her stated commitment to furthering his/her education.
3. At the discretion of the grant Administrator, both the student and his/her parents may be called upon for a short personal interview to be conducted at a pre-arranged location but in a private setting.
The Administrator/Responsibility:
The Administrator for the “Educators Scholarship” is the Governor General Sir Carlyle A. Glean. He has the authority to appoint qualified individuals to execute the duties of the Administrator.
It is the responsibility of the Administrator to ensure that all applicants meet the criteria as established above and conduct the selection process in a manner that is fair, equitable and free from any curry favor to any one student. As the Administrator’s selection is final, he is expected to exercise some level of prudence in his judgment as he makes his decision but without violating the overriding stated purpose and intent of the scholarship.
He is duty bound to maintain strict confidentially for the information gained in the application and decision making process and his decision must never be influenced by any form of political partisanship whatsoever. The Administrator remains the sole proprietor who is charged with the distribution of funds and is accountable only to the donors and managing philanthropists of the scholarship.
All funds will be deposited into account #407376 (S-2) and the funds will be dispersed to the scholarship administrator upon request.
Please send funds to: “The S. Johns Educators Scholarship Fund”
NAME OF ACCOUNT: Michael A. Passee
Account Number: 407376 (S-2)
Educators Fund
Bank Routing Number: 262275835
Bank Address: 220 Wynn Drive
Huntsville, Alabama 35895
Phone Number: 800-234-1234
(256) 837-6110
Web Address: www.redfcu.org
Bank Routing Number 262275835 is provided for direct deposit into the account; receipts will be provided to you upon request from the bank for tax purposes because this is a nonprofit scholarship fund, there will be no financial gain for anyone involved in this entire process.
An application for the scholarship is attached to this original document and can printed out for use by any applicant.
THE EDUCATORS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
FORM DOWNLOAD
Applicant’s Name: _______________________________________________________
Applicant’s Address: ______________________________________________________
Applicant’s Parent or Parents Name: _________________________________________
Applicant’s Parent or Parents Address: _______________________________________
Name of Primary School Attended: __________________________________________
Attendance Dates of Primary School: _________________________________________
Name of Secondary School Accepted to: ______________________________________
Please write a one page hand written short essay in your own words to the Scholarship Administrator depicting your commitment to furthering you education and why you should be awarded The Educators scholarship. This can be done on a separate sheet of paper.
The application should include the following documents:
1. Proof of acceptance to a Secondary School.
2. Grades for the last two years of your Primary School education
3. Financial statements from you and or your parents, which may include bank statements, checking and savings accounts and or any other financial assets which will be used to substantiate your financial need.
4. We would like to remind all applicants that we expect them to be completely honest, and that failure to do so would jeopardize their chances of being awarded the scholarship.