SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR
NURSES TRAINING
Ecusta is sponsoring a scholarship program
to provide some financial assistance each year
for selected Transylvania County girls who have
completed high school work and who are quali
fied for, and desirous of, taking advanced educa
tion with a view to entering the nursing profes
sion. The first two scholarship awards will be
made just as soon as selections can be made for
the school year 1950-51, and thereafter two ad
ditional scholarship awards will be made each
summer so long as the program remains in
effect.
Mr. Harry H. Straus hopes this scholarship
program will provide an incentive and needed
help for girls of high character and ability who
have a genuine desire to prepare themselves for
this honorable and highly essential profession.
We believe that the community as a whole, in
cluding Ecusta employees, will benefit from this
program. One benefit should be that more well-
qualified and well-trained nurses will become
available in the community as time goes on. The
scholarships will be granted, however, without
any condition requiring or expecting that the
recipients of these scholarships will necessarily
return to this area to practice their profession.
The detailed terms of the scholarship program
are as follows;
Ecusta will provide a scholarship of $300 per
school year to be paid to each girl selected for
such award and to be paid for each year of a
three-year nurse’s training course in an approved
accredited school.
Any girl residing in (or having a substantial
connection with) Transylvania County who has
successfully completed her high school education
(whether in Transylvania County or elsewhere)
is eligible for selection for one of these scholar
ship awards.
Any girl who wishes to be considered for one
of these scholarships should write a letter of ap
plication giving detailed information about her
self, including her age, residence, details as to
her scholastic record, working experience, if any,
and other interests and activities. The letter of
application should also explain such plans or de
sires as she has with respect to entering the
nursing profession. Letters of recommendation
may be submitted with the letters of application.
All applications and accompanying material should
be addressed to Ecusta Paper Corporation and
should be sent in before March 1 of any year
(except in the case of applications for scholar
ships for the school year 1950-51).
All applications filed with Ecusta will be turned
over to, and the selection of the two girls to be
awarded scholarships each year will be made by,
a committee of citizens of Transylvania County
consisting of the Superintendent of the Tran
sylvania County Schools, the County Health Nurse,
the President of the Transylvania County Medical
Association, and the President of the Transylvania
Ministerial Association.
The committee in making its selections shall
consider the following factors as to all applicants:
(a) General scholastic high school record.
(b) Special interest in and aptitude for nurs
ing as indicated by scholastic record in subjects
such as science, physiology, hygiene, and the like.
(c) Personality and character traits which evi
dence seriousness of purpose, likelihood of comple
tion of the three-year nursing course, and devotion
to the ideals associated with the nursing profession.
(d) General physical fitness for the demands
imposed by the nursing profession.
The Committee will select as scholarship re
cipients from among the applicants those girls who
in their judgment possess the most desirable com
bination of qualifications based on the above fac
tors. The Committee will have the power, if in its
judgment circumstances warrant, to consider girls
who have not made formal application. The Com
mittee will also make such inquiries and investiga
tions as to the applicants as it sees fit. The Com
mittee in addition to selecting two scholarship re
cipients each year will also select a first alternate
and a second alternate. In the event that either
or both of the persons selected for the scholarships
shall be unable to accept such scholarships, the
scholarship awards shall then be offered in the
order of precedence to the alternates selected by
the Committee.