Bridgeport High School Alumni and Friends Foundation Inc. Scholarship Instructions And

BRIDGEPORT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC. SCHOLARSHIP INSTRUCTIONS AND APPLICATION

The Mission of the Bridgeport High School Alumni & Friends Foundation is to effectively prepare our students to be successful in the rapidly changing world of the 21st Century. We solely support academic endeavors within Bridgeport High School. Scholarship applications are evaluated based upon academic achievement, financial need, and other criteria addressed within the application.

The Alumni and Friends Foundation is proud to be awarding 19 scholarships for deserving graduates. One scholarship is $5000. Five scholarships will be in the amount of $1500, eight will be in the amount of $1200, and five will be in the amount of $2000.

The Tom and MaryAnn Mace scholarship is for a student that will be attending a college or university in WV. It is in the amount of $5000. Mr. Mace's biography is attached.

Maxine Moose Bruhns, a graduate of BHS, and a BHS Alumni and Friends Hall of Fame honoree, has graciously provided the means to fund three scholarships designated for deserving FEMALE graduates only. Those scholarships will be in the amount of $2000 each. A brief biography of Maxine Moose Bruhns is attached.

The Mary Rogers Orr scholarship is for a student that will attend a Community College or a Technical School. The student must have a GPA of 2.5. A biography of Mary Rogers Orr is attached.

Four of the seven $1200 scholarships are made possible by area businesses. They are, Diamond Street Car Wash, Mar-Don Inc., Mine Belt Service Company, and Drs. Murray, Murray & Groves. Our ability to fund more scholarships every year is due to the support of our local businesses.

See your counselor for more information on BHS Alumni & Friends Foundation Scholarships, including the Doug and Pamela Van Scoy Scholarship for students who plan on attending WVU. Mr. VanScoy's biography is attached.

INSTRUCTIONS

1-It is MANDATORY that each applicant complete ALL of the questions and provide ALL of the requested documents. The application MUST be typed. Failure to do so will void the application.

2-The Foundation reserves the right to limit the number of scholarships awarded if the application pool is not sufficient in number or merit-based applications.

3-The scholarship money will be awarded upon receipt of a copy of the paid tuition invoice from the applicant's chosen institution of higher learning.

4- We would like you and your parents to join us for a small reception in the library after the awards assembly.

4-The scholarship winners will be announced and recognized at the annual Hall of Fame dinner banquet to be held on October 31, 2015. If at all possible we request that scholarship recipients attend this dinner.

5-This scholarship application must be submitted to the Jane Byrd, BHS senior counselo's Office by May 1, 2015.

BHS ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

Name______

Mailing Address______

Telephone Number______

Where do you plan to attend school?

What will be your major?

1-The intent of these scholarships is to help students further their education. How have you helped others during your high school career? Include school, church, club, and community activities.

2-Will you be receiving any other form of financial aid or scholarships? If so, please list.

3-Do you have any younger siblings at home?If yes, how many? Are any of

your siblings disabled?If yes, please list their name and age.

4-Do you have any siblings currently in college?If yes, what are their names

and ages?

5-Write an essay of up to one page about the following statement.

There is a responsibility that goes along with the privilege of being a student and an alumnus of Bridgeport High School. What does that statement mean to you?

PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING WITH THIS APPLICATION:
1-Official high school transcript

2-Copy of ACT/SAT scores — Optional ONLY if applying for the Mary Orr scholarship

3-A COMPLETED_FAFSA form — Your application will be DISQUALIFIED if the FAFSA is not included.

4-A wallet sized photo (for use when we announce the winners in the BHS newsletter) — Optional if applying for the Mary Orr scholarship

FAILURE TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION WILL VOID THIS APPLICATION.

Signed______Date

Biography of Maxine Moose Bruhns

Maxine Moose was born in Grafton WV in 1924. She grew up in Bridgeport on Newton Street from age three, walking to grade school on Simpson Creek.

Graduating from Bridgeport High School in 1941, she won a scholarship to West Virginia Wesleyan College. WWII, declared in December of that year, impelled Maxine to interrupt college and work on Glenn L. Martin's B-26 Bomber in Hagerstown, Md.

Graduating from Ohio State University in 1946, she married German-born Fred C. Bruhns three days later. A political refugee from Hitler, Fred became a refugee expert, and his work took the couple on a 15 year odyssey covering four continents. Maxine taught English, worked for CARE, learned French and German, and acquired a working knowledge of Arabic, Farsi, and Greek.

In 1965, the Bruhnses returned to America, and Maxine became Director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs at the University of Pittsburgh-a position she currently holds. She works with Pittsburgh's 35 ethnic communities to preserve and promote their heritages through Nationality Rooms, festivals, coverts, and lectures.

To broaden the University of Pittsburgh's students' international horizons, her program has awarded more than 900 Summer Study Abroad Scholarships.

She earned a master's degree in Education from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon in 1954. West Virginia Wesleyan bestowed on her a Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa degree in 2007. She is a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.

Maxine lectured at Bridgeport High School on international cultures, as well as working abroad and has welcomed hundreds of BHS students to the Nationality Rooms at the University of Pittsburgh.

Biography of Mary Rogers Orr

Mary Etta Rogers came from humble beginnings, born the fifth child into a struggling farming family on Simpson Creek in 1925. Her life was forever impacted by the Great Depression, which dominated her childhood. She learned to be frugal and make do, and even in her adult life, when things became easier for her, she was still driven by the wise old saying, "waste not, want not."

She was a hard worker at whatever the task before her. She made good grades, despite her shyness, and graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1943, the first and only in her family to do so. With great financial sacrifice of her parents, she went on to attend and graduate from West Virginia Business College in Clarksburg — her first real exposure to a world beyond the farm.

In 1946, she married WWII veteran and 1937 Bridgeport High School graduate, Howard Orr, and forever after was known in all circles as Mary Orr. Together they raised four daughters, who graduated both Bridgeport High School and WVU. However, her ties to Bridgeport High extend beyond, as she served as the school secretary for almost twenty years, from 1967-1986.

Mary was keenly aware of her good fortune and often stated to her daughters, "We are so blessed." She never forgot her roots and always reached out to those in need both financially and emotionally. It is fitting and proper that in death that reach continues. She believed in paying it forward, before there was a movie of that name. Her daughters are just honoring the memory of their mother, who was blessed, but industrious, with this scholarship to a Technical School or Community College for a Bridgeport High School graduate who the Foundation deems worthy.

BIOGRAPHY OF DOUGLAS VAN SCOY

Mr. VanScoy is a native of Harrison County and a 1961 graduate of Bridgeport High School. He received BS and MS degrees from West Virginia University. After completing his service in the U.S. Army, he started his investment career in Baltimore, Md., in 1969 with Blyth Eastman Dillon. In 1974 he went to work with the investment firm Smith Barney, remaining with them until his retirement in 2001.

Mr. VanScoy has served as a board member and chairman of the West Virginia University Alumni Association. He currently serves on the West Virginia

University Foundation Board of Directors. He and his wife, Pamela Smith VanScoy, have three married daughters, and reside in Charleston South Carolina.

BIOGRAPHY OF TOM MACE

Tom Mace was born in Anmoore in 1940 and graduated with the Class of 1958. He was a member of the 1955 state champion football team. He began his career with the NASA Tour Center in the mid-60s and became manager of tour operations. In 1973, he was named operations manager for TWA for the Zion, Bryce and Grand Canyon National Parks, eventually being named vice-president. In 1981, he moved to Forever Resorts, becoming executive vice-president and also became executive vice-president of a health and beauty products company. Mr. Mace also started his own company, Grand Canyon Management, and has built hotels and restaurants in Arizona. He is now semi-retired but still builds homes here in the Harrison County area, 15 to date. He is married to the former Mary Ann McShane of Bridgeport. They have two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.