COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O. BOX 2120
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23218-2120
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 172
December 7, 2001
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Jo Lynne
DeMary Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Granville
P. Meade Scholarships |
The Department of Education is pleased to announce
the availability of the Granville P. Meade Scholarships to provide financial
assistance to students who have achieved academically, but who are financially
unable to attend college. The Granville P. Meade fund provides scholarship
awards to worthy and needy Virginia high school seniors to attend one of
Virginia’s public or private colleges or universities. Additional information
about the scholarships may be found in Attachment A.
Attachment B contains the scholarship application.
Principals of all public and nonpublic senior high schools are requested to
assist in making students aware of the scholarship opportunity. In the past
year, each scholarship was in the amount of $2,000 per year for four years,
provided the student continues to meet the scholarship requirements.
Interested students are asked to submit scholarship
applications to their high school principals by January 15, 2002. Each public
school principal will in turn submit all applications received to the
superintendent of the division. Private schools will submit their applications
to their own associations. These applications will be due in the
superintendents’ and associations’ offices by January 31, 2002.
Each division superintendent will review the
applications received and select the five most qualified high school seniors in
the division. The division superintendent will forward these five applications
to the chairperson of his or her regional study group screening committee
(Attachment C) by February 28, 2002. Each chairperson will submit the five best
applications to the Virginia Department of Education by March 31, 2002. Private
school and home school associations also will be asked to submit their five
best applications to the Virginia Department of Education by March 31, 2002.
All applications are to be mailed to Vernon L. Wildy, Virginia Department of
Education, P. O. Box 2120, Richmond, VA 23218-2120.
For further information, please contact Vernon L.
Wildy (mailto:vwildy@pen.k12.va.us),
associate director for secondary instructional services, at (804) 225-2877.
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Attachments
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/suptsmemos/2001/inf172a.pdf