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April 2008
Chapter now accepting applications for sholarship
The Pennsylvania Chapter is accepting applications
for the Wyona Coleman scholarship. The recently established the
Wyona Coleman Scholarship Fund will offer one $1,000 scholarship
this fall and two in 2009.
The scholarships are a memorial to longtime Sierra Club member Wyona
Coleman, who was a founding member of both her local Group and the
Pennsylvania Chapter. Because she witnessed firsthand the resulting
destruction of both farms and forests, Coleman’s primary environmental
concern was mining. She was a champion of coalfield residents who
were victimized by unregulated strip mining, and was so instrumental
in advocating for the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act,
that she was invited to the White House to witness President Jimmy
Carter sign the bill into law.
The Wyona Coleman scholarship is open to all Pennsylvania residents
who are seniors in high school as well as those already accepted
or enrolled into any college-level program in environmental studies.
Applications must include:
• A letter of application indicating the student’s academic
record.
• Two letters of support: one academic and the other from
a community group in which the applicant has done volunteer work.
• A 300-word essay on how the student intends to use their
education to protect the environment.
Applications are due May 15 and should be submitted electronically
to pennsylvania.chapter@sierraclub.org. Please place the word “Scholarship”
in the subject line. The first of the three scholarships will be
awarded by May 30, 2008.
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