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Purpose: To recognize, memorialize and honor the amazing life of Jessica Clyne by providing scholarship assistance to a graduating senior at Kearney Catholic High School and tuition assistance to an incoming student at Kearney Catholic High School.
Overview: The Jessica Clyne Memorial Scholarship was established on January 26, 2006 with $5,538.25 in memorial funds. The family (Jerome and Michelle Clyne) wish to provide, for a period of 10 years, a $500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Kearney Catholic High School beginning in the Spring of 2006 and beginning in the 2007-2008 school year a $200 tuition assistance to an incoming student at Kearney Catholic High School.
Scholarship Criteria:
- The $500 Jessica Clyne Memorial Scholarship will be awarded for a period of 10 years beginning in May, 2006 to a graduating senior at Kearney Catholic High School.
- First priority in awarding the scholarship will be to a student planning to enroll in a Nebraska Community College in the Fall term immediately following graduation and to an individual who has been actively involved in the music program at Kearney Catholic High School.
- If there are no Kearney Catholic High School graduating seniors pursuing college careers at a Nebraska Community College, the scholarship will be awarded to a student actively involved in the school’s music program who will be attending a four year college or university.
- Interested students will complete the school’s standard scholarship application to become eligible for the scholarship. Scholarship applications will be available around March 1 each year.
- Selection of the scholarship recipient will also include consideration of the student’s overall grade point average, class rank, college entrance exam scores, moral character, leadership, school involvement, and community service.
- The scholarship will be presented at the school’s annual Senior Honors Night program with a plaque or certificate being presented to the winner.
- Scholarship proceeds will be paid directly to the recipient’s college or university choice to be used for tuition, room and board, books and other college related expenses.
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