The School called yesterday on the proposed scholarship and I apologize for dropping the ball on this please see the attached pdf file on the Scholarship.
The easiest way to accomplish this is set up a perpetual scholarship that will ensure that the award is given each year. This require us to make an initial deposit with the town of $2,500 that will provide a minimum scholarship of $100 each year but will grow as we add to it and interest accumulates each year.
Based on everyones feed back,off site emails, and the schools recommendations the Scholarship will be Awarded based on the following:
To the Senior who has
• Maintained at least a B avg throughout their high school years,
• student must have attended Hingham High School for minimum of 3 years.
• Who has shown active participation in performing community service over their high school career.
• Has a Demonstrate financial need
• Must be accepted to an Accredited Higher Educational - College, University, Skilled Trade program
The school has a committee that will make the selection based on these criteria each year.
This Alumni Donation Drive is to fund the minimum $2,500 Town requirement (see attached file) , the more we collect the more the initial Scholarship will be though.
There are 656 registered alumni on the site and assuming that 10% of the email addresses are no longer valid that means that hopefully there are about 590 Alumni that might want to contribute to the Alumni Scholarship fund. If the average donation is $10 then the Alumni can set up the Scholarship with a $5,725 contribution (less paypal fees) so that would mean that this year the scholarship awarded would be $200.
At this level and assuming annually people make additional donations within about 2-3 years this Scholarship should rise to $500 annually and be self funded while increasing each year.
We know some people will not be able to or may not want to donate to the scholarship so we will set it up so people can made donations that best match their ability in the following amounts -
$2
$5
$10
$25
$50
$75
$100
$250
$500
$1,000
These amounts are based on alumni feedback.
Please make a donation if you are able and please do not worry if you can not.
If you would like to make a voluntary donation to the Alumni Scholarship please click here:
http://www.hinghamhighalumni.org/Alumni_Scholarship_Donation.php
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