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268 Students Receive
Scholarships
College doors will swing open this monh for 268 young men and women whose education is being largely financed by Ford Motor Company Fund schlarships.
Representing Virginia are Barbara A. Bloodgood. 812 West 48th Street. Norfolk, a senior at the University of Richmond; Alma Roberta Smith, Route No. 1, Sandston, a sophomore at Beaver College, and George F. Turner, Jr., 314 South Broad Street, Suffolk, a sophomore at Carson* Newman College.
Ford Fund scholarships were initiated in 1951, and since then havr been awarded to a minimum of 70 sons and daughters of Ford Motor Company employes each veat. Enrolled in 90 (different, colleges and universities this month will be 198 seniors, juniors and sophomores, and 70 winners of 19^7 scholarships who will enroll as freshmen.
Applicants must be high school graduates with a specified grade average. They are required to pass certain scholarstic and aptitude examinations and have the recommendation of high school teachers and counsellers. Final selection of the winners is made each spring by a board comprised of nine college and university preidents.
Scholarship contributions are made directly to the school selected by the winners, and finnance the student's tuition and fees and 80 per cent of his normal livihg costs, up to a maVimum of $750 a year for those living away from home. vwaMNmRaMMHiMUMari
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