Emma Woodson Hill Memorial Scholarship Award

Our family members are delighted to name our scholarship award in honor of Emma Woodson Hill. Cousin Emma—a wise, warm, intelligent, and strong woman—was instrumental in bringing our large family together. She spent countless hours researching our heritage and traveling to Virginia to meet long-lost family members. Even as she grew older, she continued doing whatever she could to help establish and sustain our twice-yearly family reunions. She was immensely proud to see her daughter become an outstanding attorney, and from heaven she is smiling as she watches her granddaughters excel academically and become contributing citizens in our society. They are carrying on their grandmother’s tradition of commitment to—and support of—our family reunion activities. For these reasons and more, our award is named “The Emma Woodson Hill Memorial Scholarship Award.” We wish you the best in life, and we congratulate you on your accomplishments thus far.

Background Information

 

• Our family reunion committee will issue these awards annually. Recipients will be announced during our family reunion activities, otherwise a local family member or scholarship committee member will present the award(s) individually during July or August of each year.

• Funding for this award comes from an annual scholarship donation request with monies used for the scholarship fund. All family members aged 18 (active students are exempt) and above are requested to make an annual donation by March 31st of each year, so the scholarship selection committee will know how much money is available for distribution.

 

• The amount of each award will be determined by the amount of money in the scholarship fund and by the number of applicants that year.  The minimum award for each qualified applicant will be $100. If no applications are received, all funds will be carried over to the next year.

Criteria

The scholarship is available to any family member who meets the following criteria: 

• Graduating high school seniors to a school of higher learning.

• Incoming first-year or matriculated student.

• Accepted to an accredited institution of higher learning or a program where a professional certificate or license can be earned (e.g., culinary, CADD); and

• Completed application and submitted it by email to the National Executive Committee Chairman Emeritus, Jimmy L. West, Jr. before June 1st.:clmwwwewh@gmail.com.