Local #608 Scholarship Program
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The Local 608 Scholarship program provides us with another way to express our abiding interest in the members of Local 608 and their children, and to contribute to society by making the benefits of a college education available to deserving young people.
Five scholarships will be awarded annually under this program for the academic year that begins with the fall semester. Applications for these scholarships must be submitted by the date stated on the application. An application is enclosed with this brochure for your convenience.
All phases of the scholarship competition, including selection of winners and determination of the amount of each of the scholarship awards, are handled by the College Scholarship Service/Sponsored Scholarship Programs (CSS/SSP). The College Scholarship Service is a program of the College Board. Operational activities are performed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS)
THE AWARDS: There shall be seven scholarships awarded each year under this program. The scholarships are intended to offset the costs of attending college for the purpose of attaining a bona fide undergraduate degree. Each scholarship awardee shall be paid $4,000.00 per year for as many as four years, or as much as $16,000.00. After each year, the scholarship shall be renewed provided that the recipient has had satisfactory grades from the previous year and the recipient's parent who is a member has satisfied his or her membership in good standing requirements.Each award will be sent directly to the college at which the winner is enrolled, and credited to the winner's account for payment of authorized college expenses (tuition, room and board for college operated accommodations, and all documented matriculation and other usual and similar fees).
Disbursements of stipends will be co-payable to the institution and the recipient. Disbursements are subject to the institution's scholarship policy.
All scholarships shall be paid from the general funds of the Local Union. Therefore, if claims of General creditors of the Local Union shall be large enough to require use of the sums Set aside for the purpose of this article for payment, it could be necessary to reduce or terminate payments under this article.
STUDENT ELIGIBILITY: To qualify, the applicant must be the natural or legally adopted child of an eligible member in good standing.Applicants will be considered eligible without regard to age provided they are unmarried and:
entering college as freshmen without prior college credit, or
entering college with prior college credit earned while completing the senior year of high school in either an Early Admissions or Advanced Placement Program, or
a mid-year graduate from high school, who entered college in the spring semester and who has earned one-half year's college credit.
winners of the Charles Johnson Scholarships will not be eligible for the Carpenters' Local 608 Scholarship. By eliminating duplication, more of the Local 608's children will be recipients of scholarships made possible by the Union.
MEMBER ELIGIBILITY: Students will be considered eligible as candidates for a scholarship award provided one of their parents is a member in good standing as defined in the Constitution and Laws of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.A deceased member's child will be considered an eligible candidate for a scholarship award if, at the time of his or her death, the deceased member met the above requirements, and his or her child was at least 12 years of age.
The child of a Regular, Early Retirement or Disability pensioner of Local 608 under the New York City District Council of Carpenters Pension Fund will likewise be eligible if, at the time of his or her retirement, the pensioner met the above active member requirements, and his or her child was at least 12 years of age.
SELECTION OF WINNERS: Winners are selected based on several factors, including leadership qualities, seriousness of purpose, high school academic record, extracurricular activities in the school and in the community, character and maturity, clarity of and commitment to educational goals and the labor movement, recommendations, student's own statement and test scores. Each candidate must be willing to accept the Scholarship Committee decision as final.
Fill out the enclosed application blank.
Give the completed application form to your principal or guidance counselor to sign and to enter your junior year rank-in-class and class size.
You should provide a stamped addressed envelope so the complete application form can be mailed to:
Carpenters' Local 608 Scholarship
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America
College Scholastic Programs
P.O. Box 6730
Princeton, New Jersey 08541Your application must reach the address listed below on or before the date stated in the application. Only candidates who have submitted scholarship applications will be considered for the Carpenters' Local 608 Scholarship.
SAT REQUIREMENT: (Important: Please Read Carefully)Register for and take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of the College Board no later than the December administration.
When completing the reports to Colleges and Scholarship Sponsors Section of your Registration Form, enter Code for the Carpenters' Local 608 Scholarship Program as one of the colleges or scholarship programs to which scores are to be sent.
Note: If this instruction is not followed accurately...To register for the SAT, you will need a copy of the College Board Admissions Testing Program Registration Bulletin.
If not available from your high school,
you may obtain one by writing to or phoning:
Carpenters Local 608
Scholarship Sponsored Scholarship Programs
P.O. Box 6730
Princeton, New Jersey 08541
(609) 921-9000
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