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Maxwell Scholarship offered to students

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WAYNESBURG – Trustees of the R. Wallace and Margaret Maxwell Scholarship Fund have announced $14,000 will be available for scholarships for the 2014-15 school year.

Deadline for those applying is May 9. No application form will be used. Instead, all qualified applicants must write a letter addressed to the R. Wallace and Margaret Maxwell Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 446, Waynesburg, PA 15370.

Any Greene County resident who has completed high school and plans to pursue or is pursuing a bachelor of arts or science degree, associate’s degree, certificate of completion or a diploma from a trade school may apply.

Those interested must have applied for other scholarships or grants, providing specific figures of amounts applied for and/or amounts received to date.

Applicants should list anticipated costs of one year of further education under consideration. Proof of acceptance to an institution of higher learning also is required.

The letter of application should include the name, address and telephone number of the applicant, as well as the high school attended, year of graduation and major field of interest.

If already attending an institution of higher learning, the applicant should provide a copy of a recent transcript. Additional information should include extracurricular activities, honors and awards, grade-point average and community service.

Information on the applicant’s financial need, such as family economic records (income tax returns, etc.) and employment, along with the number of household dependents, also is required.

Awards are made without regard to race, sex or religious affiliation based upon the financial needs of the applicant and his or her family, taking into consideration the above information.

These annual awards are established by the estate of the late R. Wallace Maxwell, a Waynesburg attorney, and his wife, Margaret Maxwell. Serving on the scholarship committee are J. William Hook, Doris Neubauer and Heidi Blair.

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