Scholarship Guidelines

Scholarship recipients are selected by the Distribution Committee in May of each year.  Scholarship funds must be returned to the Orange Foundation if the student does not attend college the year the award was made.  The applicant must answer all application questions or be disqualified from being considered for a scholarship award.  The currently established scholarships and their criteria are as follows:

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Scholarship Funds

Charles L. Flynn Scholarship Established in 1976         
“This scholarship will provide assistance towards room and board at the Undergraduate or Graduate school of the student’s choice for the Regular school term.”

Harry Haynes Scholarship Fund Established in 1976               
“This scholarship is designated for assistance to a student of Veterinary Medicine, either Graduate or Undergraduate.  If there is no applicant for the Veterinarian Scholarship, the fund shall be available for a General Scholarship.”

 Thomas F. Birmingham, Jr. Scholarship Established in 1981 
“This scholarship is for a male or female recipient who is both an athlete and a scholar.  The intended definition of a scholar is an individual who maintains a B+ or higher average in his or her senior year in High School.  An athlete is one who has won one or more letters in any varsity sport.”

William Knight Scholarship Fund Established in 1986
“A bi-annual (even number years) scholarship award, with selection based upon a combination of the student’s financial need, scholastic record and service to the community.  The latter criterion will have the greatest emphasis in making the award.”

Vaughn Family Scholarship Established in 1988
“To provide assistance towards tuition, board, etc., for an undergraduate student in need of financial assistance in the top 25% of his/her class.”

Elizabeth C. and John W. Povilaitis Community Fund Established in 1989
 
“To provide scholarship assistance; medical research for heart disease, hypertension or cancer; medical equipment for the Orange nursing service; books for the library or services for the sick, lame and elderly of Orange.”

Frank P. and Louise Horbal Tripp Scholarship Fund Established in 2006           
 “To provide assistance to a student of Lithuanian or Ukrainian extraction who is a resident of the   Town of Derby or Ansonia.”