The Bayberry Garden Club of Brielle is offering a $1,000 scholarship to New Jersey high school seniors and undergraduate students in an effort to promote the study of horticulture, landscape design, botany and other related subjects.
For an application, write to Mary Lou Bolger, Two Water’s Edge, Brielle, NJ 08730. All documents must be submitted with [...]

Mary Wollenberg pitched the idea of raising money for a scholarship to help a Terryville High School senior graduating this year continue her or his education. The plan was very well received.
“I’m a former teacher and I work with another scholarship through my church,” Wollenberg said.
Sue Murawski, town councilor at large and club member, [...]

The Sadie Harter Cooner Endowed Scholarship will be awarded again this year to a deserving student or students from Bamberg or the surrounding area.
This scholarship was presented to Trinity United Methodist Church in honor of Mrs. Cooner by her nieces, Anne Harter Wilson and Marian B. Harter of Salisbury, N.C. in December 2000. Cooner was [...]

The widow of a Texas oil executive has donated $100 million to expand the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s prestigious merit scholarship program.
As a result, it will be known as the Morehead-Cain Scholarship.
The gift from Mary Cain will allow the university to nearly double the size of the scholarship program.
The four-year scholarship was [...]

Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation announced it received a bequest from Marion “Bunny” Hoover of almost $1 million to provide an endowment fund for annual scholarships benefiting graduates of North Platte High School as well as students at North Platte Community College.
The announcement was made at the community foundation’s celebration event Saturday night in North Platte.
In [...]

A scholarship was recently established in memory of Simone Grant Timoney, a 1983 graduate of Catawba College. Simone’s aunt, Sylvia Wiseman of Salisbury, gave the initial gift to establish the Simone Grant Timoney Endowed Scholarship.
Timoney received a bachelor of arts degree, majored in theatre arts and speech and frequently appeared on the Hedrick Little Theatre [...]

The International Spa Association (ISPA) Foundation has created a scholarship in honour of industry leader and Cornell University Associate Professor Mary Tabacchi.

The American Association of University Women Tyler Branch is currently accepting scholarship applications from young women attending Smith County public high schools and Tyler Junior College, AAUW spokesperson Mary Lynn Smith said.
Two scholarships of $1,500 each will be awarded to graduating seniors and one of the same amount to a TJC student planning to [...]

CEFCO Convenience Stores, a business unit of Fikes Wholesale, Inc., contributed $15,000 to establish the C. E. Fikes (CEFCO) Endowed Scholarship at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, located in Belton, Texas.
The scholarship is named in honor of C. E. Fikes, native of Cameron, Texas and founder of Fikes Wholesale.
CEFCO c-stores, a chain of 70 convenience [...]

Joann and Benny Pearce of Fayetteville, NC, have recently established and endowed a scholarship at Campbell University. The Pearces are career educators who served the Cumberland County School System for over 30 years—Benny as teacher, principal, and Assistant Superintendent of Schools and Joann as a teacher and principal. The scholarship will be awarded to prospective [...]