DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 18
January 25, 2008
INFORMATIONAL
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Granville
P. Meade Scholarships 2008 |
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
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 March 7, 2008. Each public
school principal will submit all applications received to the superintendent of
the division. Private schools and
home-schooled students will submit their applications to their own
associations. These applications should
be received in the superintendents’ and associations’ offices by March 21, 2008.
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 April 4, 2008. Each chairperson will submit the five best
applications to the Virginia Department of Education by April 18, 2008. Private school and home-school associations are
also asked to submit their five best applications to the Virginia Department of
Education by April 18, 2008. All
applications are to be mailed to:
Joseph Wharff, School Counseling Specialist
Office of Middle and High School Instruction
For
further information, please contact Joseph Wharff, by e-mail at Joseph.Wharff@doe.virginia.gov,
or telephone at (804) 786-9377.
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Attachments
a. 2008 Procedures for the Selection of Recipients (.pdf)
b. 2008 Scholarship Application (.doc)
c. Regional Study Group
Screening Committee (.pdf)