Applications for education, nursing scholarships due soon – St. Charles Herald Guide
Applications for the Ethel Schoeffner Scholarship, which awards college students studying nursing or education with up to $2,500, are due Dec. 1.
College students may be eligible for the scholarship if they have graduated from Destrehan High School or Hahnville High School, reached at least the second semester of their sophomore year in education or nursing, and are in good standing in the college of education or nursing at an accredited, four-year state college or university. The students must also be full-time college students.
Alex Suffrin, the chairman of the scholarship fund, said the scholarship requirements are not overly stringent.
“Students have a good chance of being selected for the scholarship if they submit a completed application form, along with the other required documents, which includes: a transcript, essays on career choice and need/use of the scholarship, and a letter from the student’s dean or department head indicating good standing,” Suffrin said.
Suffrin said the application form is easily accessible. Interested students can access applications from the St. Charles Parish School Board Office, 785-6289, or online at https://www.wearescpps.org/resources/ethel-schoeffner-scholarship.
“A slight investment of time in completing the application requirements could pay dividends in receiving the scholarship, which awards $500 per semester up to a maximum of five semesters and $2,500,” he said.
After the initial selection, a letter of good standing from the college or university dean is required from the scholarship recipient each semester to renew the scholarship.
Suffrin said the scholarship has helped ease the financial burden for many students who may not have had the means to continue or complete their higher education.
“To date, the scholarship has been awarded to almost 200 students,” he said.
He said last year that the scholarship fund was established with slightly less than $200,000 and has now awarded more than $500,000 in scholarships. He said interest earned has helped pay for the scholarships granted.
Ethel Schoeffner, who died in 1989, left the major parts of proceeds from her estate to establish the scholarship trust fund. She served the St. Charles Parish public school system for 48 years, from 1917-1965, as an elementary school teacher and as an elementary school principal.
Schoeffner specified in her will that students who receive the scholarship must be enrolled in either the education or nursing curriculum to qualify.
The board of trustees for the Ethel Schoeffner Scholarship Fund meets two times each year — in June and December — to consider new scholarship applications and grant conditional renewal of scholarships currently in effect.
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