Applications being accepted for scholarship

CROWLEY – The Memorial Educational Foundation announces that it will award the Mary Grace Pete Scholarship in May 2008. The $500 scholarship will be awarded to an academically able and needy student from a religious home.

The scholarship is awarded in memory of Mrs. Mary Grace Pete, a former citizen of the Acadia Parish community. She held higher education in very high esteem, encouraged and assisted needy youth of her church and community to pursue college careers and was among the founders of the local Head Start Program.

Applications for the scholarship are available from the counselors at the high schools in the parish. To qualify, students from religious homes must be nominated by their pastor, priest, rabbi or religious leader. Letters of nomination, accompanied by transcripts of academic credits earned, should be sent to: The Memorial Education Foundation, 620 North M.L. King Jr. Drive, Eunice, LA 70535.

The Memorial Educational Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by the Pete Family of Crowley and chartered by the State of Louisiana. One of the purposes of the Foundation is to assist and encourage needy students to continue their education.

The recipient of the Mary Grace Pete Scholarship in 2007 was Blandon Jamal David, an outstanding scholar who graduated from Notre Dame High School. Blandon is currently attending Tulane University at New Orleans pursuing a career in the field of public health and tropical medicine, majoring in global and community health.

Services of The Memorial Educational Foundation will be made available to selected families, churches, non-profit charitable or civic organizations that wish to establish memorial or other educational scholarships or other type of educational programs that will benefit needy youth. Interested persons or organizations may telephone the Foundation at 337-457-2326 or 337-783-1620 for additional information.