As stated in the the Club's constitution, the Club shall "provide a scholarship fund for needy and worthy students for the study of radio communications."
The Radio Club of America takes great pride in what continues to be one the finest and most successful scholarship programs in the electronics industry.
For the fiscal year ending 30 September 2008, the following organizations were granted scholarship awards:
University of Texas-Austin -$2,000
University of California at Los Angeles(UCLA) - $3,000
Virginia Tech - $2,000
University of Cincinnati - $500
This grant is matched by Captain Finch's daughter, Mrs. Eloise Tholen as well as Ford Motor Company
Capitol College - $2,000
This grant is named in memory of Ernestine Morrisey, wife of John Morrisey
Montclair State University- $2,000
This university maintains the Allen B. Dumont Television Center
Polytechnic University - $2,000
Fairleigh Dickinson University - $1,000
Stevens Institute of Technology - $1,500
This grant in memory of Patrick E. Buller
Foundation for Amateur Radio - 3 grants
Diane Zimmerman, Chair
3 Recipient yet to be named
A dontation was made to the Radio Club Scholarship Fund by Enterprise Wireless Association in the amount of $5,000 in honor of Martin Cooper in 2007
Martin Cooper donated $2,500 from a speaking engagement in 2008.
Here is a list of the different Scholarship Funds and how they originated:
Each of these organizations have proceedures in place to award 100% of the Club's grants to specific college students in need of tuition assistance.
The scholarship funds were started in the early 80's by Captain Bill Finch (USN). He put in a lump sum and the Finch Grant-In-Aid fund was created.
The Goldwater Fund was established in honor of Barry Goldwater while he was still alive. Tthe Meyerson Fund was established in honor of Lou Meyerson. The Poppele Fund was established in memory of Jack Poppele by the Poppele family; The Link fund was established in memory of Fred Link and the Meyer fund was established in honor of Stuart Meyer. The Biggs Fund was established by his widow in memory of member.Fellow Biggs. The Grebe fund was started by Alfred Grebe II in memory of his father. The Gunther fund was started by Robert Gunther for Frank Gunther.
The Buller Fund was established in 2006 by Eileen Buller in memory of her husband, Patrick Buller.
The Somers Fund was established by Richard Somers .
If you would liike to establish a scholarship fund, either in memory or someone or in honor of someone, please contact me. I would be happy to work with you on this.
The Radio Club Scholarship Commitee is chaired by John E. Dettra, Jr. (F), WB4NBF. You can contact me at jdet@erols.com .
