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January 2008
Local Non-Profit Starts Scholarship Fund for Greenville County Students
(Greenville, SC—January 2, 2008) Greenville-based American Leprosy Missions (ALM) has established a scholarship fund to benefit Greenville County high school students who are pursuing college degrees that will lead to a vocation involving international service to the poor.
The Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship will be awarded annually to two graduating high school seniors seeking to serve the disenfranchised and afflicted peoples in developing countries of the world.
Each year one male and one female Greenville County high school senior will be selected to receive a $2,000 annual scholarship. Seniors graduating from public or private schools as well as home-schooled students will be eligible. Recipients will be able to apply for renewal for up to three years.
"The young people that will receive this money will be characterized by their friends and family for their acts of service to others," said Christopher J. Doyle, President of ALM. "Serving the 'least of these' is a Biblical principle. ALM hopes this scholarship will encourage those students who are already living a life that is more about others than themselves."
The applicants will be required to write an essay between 250-500 words expressing their future goals on service to the poor. Finalists will be selected and appear before a committee who will select the two recipients. Winners will be announced each year in conjunction with the ALM Board meeting, which takes place in Greenville the first Friday in May.
The scholarship was established to honor the memory of long-time ALM Donor, Dorothy Marron of New Jersey, who contributed the second largest legacy gift in ALM’s 101-year history last year. American Leprosy Missions’ worldwide headquarters is located in Greenville, SC. ALM is the oldest and largest non-profit organization in the United States providing cure and care to people affected by leprosy. For more information about ALM’s global ministry please visit www.deliverthecure.org.
