Weller Foundation Offers Scholarships

WOODBURY — The Weller Foundation, Incorporated, has announced a series of scholarships for which full-time seniors enrolled at Newtown, Joel Barlow, Masuk, Shelton, or Trumbull high schools can compete. Specific rules and requirements for the scholarships are available through each school’s guidance department, unless otherwise specified.

Seniors with a minimum 3.5 GPA or a class rank in the top 20 percent of their class at the end of their junior year and a minimum SAT score of 1140 may compete for the 2004 Weller Education Scholarship. Applicants must remain full-time students for the entire academic year. The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize and financially assist a high school senior planning to pursue a teaching career in public or private elementary or secondary schools.

Qualified applicants from the five eligible high schools are competing for one $4,000 scholarship. Payment will be made for the benefit of the recipient in four $1,000 installments paid directly to the institution providing the education program.

Deadline for applications is March 5, 2004. The award recipient will be honored at the Foundation’s Awards Banquet May 12, 2004 at Fairfield University.

The 2004 Weller Entrepreneurial Scholarship, in the amount of $4,000, will be available to full-time seniors involved with Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut. The scholarship is in honor of the late Baron L. Weller, founder of Vitramon, Incorporated in Monroe and the Weller Foundation, Incorporated. It is his through his generosity and strong belief in the “entrepreneurial spirit” that this award is made possible. To qualify, applicants must be recommended by their adult company supervisors, display exemplary leadership, reliability, teamwork, attitude, and performance, and be recommended by their school.

Specific rules and requirements are available through each applicant’s Junior Achievement advisor.

Deadline for applications is March 5, 2004. Qualified applicants will be judged on April 12, 2004.

Full-time seniors with a minimum 3.0 GPA during the first three cumulative years of high school and an SAT score of 975 or higher may compete for the 2004 Weller Medical/Health Sciences Scholarship, in the amount of $6,000. Applicants must remain full-time students for the entire academic year. The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage and financially assist a student upon graduation who has a chosen a course of study in the field of medical/health sciences. Health care careers acceptable under this category are nursing, therapy, medical technology, paramedics, and other licensed health care worker who provide one-on-one health care to people. Programs leading to MD or PhD degrees are not acceptable.

Deadline for applications is March 5, 2004.

Full-time seniors may submit a one or two-page proposal outlining a project in any field of study to be developed during the 2003–2004 academic year for the annual Barton L. Weller Scholarship, in the amount of $12,000. The scholarship’s purpose is to encourage academic excellence in a substantial independent project. Entrants are required to complete only one five-month proposal..

Full-time seniors may also compete for the Weller Instrumental Music Scholarship, in the amount of $4,000. It is through the generosity and love of music of the foundation’s founder, Barton L. Weller, that this scholarship is made possible.

Deadline is March 6, 2004.