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Undergraduate Scholarships Thanks to your donations and dues, we are once more able to offer five need-based scholarships of $1,800 each to students at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. The student who submits the application essay judged to be the best will be named the Ellsworth C. Alvord Jr. Scholar and receive an additional $360. The late Dr. Alvord, a member of PSA-PBK, was an outstanding physician, scientist, philanthropist, and humanitarian who dedicated his life to medical research and support of the local arts and sciences.
Ernest R. Stiefel Graduate Study Award The Ernest R. Stiefel Graduate Study Award is given to graduate or professional students who are members of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at the University of Puget Sound or University of Washington and who will attend either the University of Puget Sound or the University of Washington. A total of $4,000 is available for distribution. One $4,000 or two $2,000 awards will be given. The late Mr. Stiefel was a longtime member of the PSA-PBK board of trustees, serving for many years as its treasurer and assistant treasurer.
Scholarship Donations If you would like to make a donation to our scholarship fund, please fill out and mail in our scholarship donation form (PDF). You may also donate online. Pathfinder Awards The Pathfinder Award honors those who encourage others to seek new worlds to discover, pathways to explore, and untouched destinations to reach. We are pleased to announce the recipients, who were honored at our Spring Luncheon on April 27, 2011. Nominations for next year's awards should be sent to pathfinder@psa-pbk.org by January 1, 2012. David Brewster, for founding Seattle Weekly, Town Hall Seattle, and Crosscut.com, providing writers, musicians, activists, thinkers, politicians, and scientists a forum in Seattle, and offering the people of the Puget Sound area access to extraordinary thinking and expression. (Mr. Brewster was the speaker at our 2004 Spring Luncheon [PDF], and will be the speaker at our 2011 Fall Luncheon.) Stanley Chernicoff of the University of Washington, for his commitment to helping students succeed. He started the Dawg Daze program to assist incoming freshmen make a successful transition to the university. He also founded the Dream Project, in which UW students go to low-income Washington communities and assist qualified high schoolers with the college application process. Timothy Jones and Starbucks Coffee for founding and sponsoring the Hot Java Cool Jazz concerts, which have supported and showcased young musicians and have raised over $200,000 since 1995 to help the music-education programs of participating Puget Sound–area high schools. The last concert raised $35,000 for the program. Carol Wiseley, international entrepreneurship instructor at Mercer Island High School, for inspiring students to be business leaders on both the international and post-secondary stage. Under her guidance, students have learned the skills of corporation development, civic engagement, and service learning while establishing actual trading partnerships with Ghana, China, and Kenya.
Each spring the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa awards a personally inscribed book to outstanding graduating seniors in participating high schools throughout the Puget Sound area. This is one way we encourage and reward outstanding scholastic achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. High school principals and guidance counselors are asked to provide the name of one graduating senior who exemplifies what Phi Beta Kappa represents — a love of learning — as demonstrated by their academic achievement as well as a record of service to others. Schools may select multiple award recipients. However, we can only pay for the first book award per school. Additional books, with the students' names inscribed on the bookplates, may be ordered at a cost of $35 per book, including shipping and handling. If you would like additional information about the High School Outreach Awards program, or would like to volunteer to present books at the schools' award ceremonies, please e-mail pbkhighschoolcoord@psa-pbk.org or president@psa-pbk.org, or call Linda Willenberg at (425) 641-1606. | ||||
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