York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Scholarship

          2008 Winner

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

One scholarships will be awarded.  The scholarships will be awarded without regard to:  national or ethnic origin, race, creed, color, gender, religion, or disability. The scholarship will be awarded to a dependent of a York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Local 2498 member*.

YORK COUNTY STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

· Applicants must be high school seniors who plan to enroll or have been accepted in an accredited two or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school. They must also be enrolled for 12 credit hours or be considered a full-time student.

· Applicants must carry a 2.0 GPA.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

The York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Local 2498 Scholarship Program has an authorized distribution of $250. Financial needs will not be considered. Awards are for undergraduate study only and awards are not renewable.

DEPENDENT ELIGIBILITY

· Applicants must be high school seniors who plan to enroll or have been accepted in an accredited two or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school.  They must also be enrolled for 12 credit hours or be considered full-time student.

· Applicants must be dependent children of active or retired members in good standing, or children of members of the York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Local 2498 who have died in the line of duty. 

· Members must have a minimum of one years of membership at the time of the application deadline or have been a member since there probationary year.

· Applicants must carry a 2.0 GPA.

*If there are no applications from member-dependents of York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters, or member-dependents fail to meet eligibility requirements, then the scholarship consideration will be opened to dependents of all York County employees.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested students must complete an application and submit a 250-word essay on how further education will change his or her life. Mail it, along with current transcripts to: York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Scholarship Program, P.O. Box 1208, Yorktown VA 23692

Application packages must be postmarked no later than May 1, 2007.  Applicants are responsible for submitting all necessary information.  Applicants are evaluated on the information supplied.  Therefore, all questions must be answered completely.  All information received is considered confidential and is reviewed by York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters Local 2498 scholarship committee and the York County Guidance Department. All information received for the application process will become the property of York County Williamsburg Professional Fire Fighters  Local 2498 Application Committee and will be kept for one year, and then destroyed

General Information

In the constitution of Spain as proposed by Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me: ... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write.

It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.

- Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816