Fraternity-Testvériség, 2001 (79. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2001-01-01 / 1. szám
FRATERNITY Page 21 Student Aid As one of its many fraternal benefits, the HRFA offers a one-time financial assistance of $600 to our young members who are in pursuit of a college education. It is intended that this scholarship be applied towards the cost of tuition, fees, books, or room and board. All students who fulfill the following requirements may apply: 1. Must have been a member of the Federation for at least five years immediately preceding date of application for scholarship. He or she must be a member of good standing, i.e., applicant’s policy reflects no arrears in dues, and policy is not lapsed, matured or surrendered. 2. Should be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate day student in an accredited four-year college or university. The scholarship is not available to first-year college students. It is only granted to those who are in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th year and have earned good grades for the courses completed. 3. The applicant must contact his or her branch manager or the Home Office to receive an application form. Once the student completes the form, he or she should send it to the branch manager or the Home Office together with a grade report. The Home Office will review, approve and process the application and send the check to the applicant. We thank our Branch Managers for recommending these many fine young people for the Student Aid & Loan Fund of the HRFA, and for making them aware of this important benefit of our fraternal society. Brian Aros, Member of Br. 31: “I would like to thank Emma Aros for submitting my application for student aid to the HRFA for consideration. I am currently in my fourth year of medical school at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. I have recently been interviewing at several intemship/resi- dency programs for orthopedic surgery across the country. It is this field of medicine that I have chosen to pursue. I want to be able to help people return to their normal lives after they have had injuries or diseases to face. I graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio with a pre-med degree. I love sports and played soccer at Ohio Wesleyan. With my limited free time, I still enjoy soccer, snow and water skiing, mountain biking and hiking. Before I receive my degree this summer, I have to complete the second part of the USMLE. The money will be used to purchase the review books I will use in preparation for this examination. Thank you for supporting my investment in higher education.” Jennifer Aros, Member of Br. 31: “I am currently in graduate school at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio seeking a masters degree in accountancy. I graduated from Heidelberg College in 2000 with an accounting degree. I felt that I needed to further my education by obtaining this masters degree which will give me more knowledge in the area of computer programming in the accounting field. It will also give me the additional credits that I need in order to sit for the CPA exam. I have always enjoyed playing the flute. I almost had a double major at Heidelberg in flute and accounting. I still play when I can, but the graduate work keeps me pretty busy. I have a graduate assistant- ship this semester which helps me with my expenses. I also enjoy needlepoint and latch hooking. I look forward to completing my education and being able to enter the work force in a field that I thoroughly enjoy. I want to thank Emma Aros for submitting my application for student aid to the HRFA. The funds have greatly helped me cover some of the costs of my graduate studies.” Kelly Garner, Member of Br. 67: “I can remember walking through the checkout line in K-mart when I was five years old, watching the cashier in amazement as she pushed all those neat, bubbly-looking buttons on the cash register. It was then that I turned to my mom and said, “Mom, when I grow up I want to be a cash-register lady!” My Mom smiled and simply said, “When you grow up, you can be anything that you want to be,” and I believed her. For the next fifteen years of my life I fantasized about all that there was out there that I could possibly be. I must have changed my “dream job” at least once a week. I have wanted to be everything from a famous singer to the first female president of the United States! When I got to Penn State, I still had not decided what it was that I wanted to do. There were just way too many exciting majors that existed. However, I made a conscious decision not to dwell on it, and trusted that I would eventually find “my place”. In the meantime I tried to take advantage of the numerous activities that Penn State had to
