Alumni Scholarship Opportunities
The following graduate fellowships are available to Haverford alumni who wish to pursue study abroad or participate in an Asian work experience. The deadline for submitting applications to the Haverford College Committee on College Honors, Fellowships, and Prizes is mid-September, 1999. Please read the following information pertaining to each grant and contact Dean Patricia Darrah at (610) 896-1420, e-mail pdarrah@haverford.edu, or fax at (610) 896-4960 for additional guidelines. You may also obtain information regarding the various fellowships through the Internet addresses listed below.
Fulbright Grants provide for one year of post-graduate study, research, or teaching abroad. The applicant proposes a specific study project to be carried out through formal enrollment at an overseas educational institution research site. There are grants for the performing arts and assistantship positions for teaching English at high schools in France, Ecuador and Germany. Applicants normally must be proficient in the relevant foreign language. Selection is based on superior academic achievement, the feasibility of the study project, and personal qualifications. There is no age limit.
http://gopher.usia.gov/education/fulbright50/fulbndx.htm
Luce Scholarships provide job placement in an East Asian country for one year with the opportunity to travel before or after employment. Competition is open to current seniors and to recent graduates under the age of 30 who are neither Asian specialists nor employed in the fields of Asian affairs or international relations. Candidates should have a strong, mature and clearly defined interest in a specific career. They should also have given evidence of strong motivation and outstanding capacity for leadership and accomplishment. They should have a pronounced openness to new ideas and sensitivity to their fellow human beings. Candidates need not have developed specific plans for their Asian experience, but need to explain how their experiences will benefit them in their chosen field. Haverford may nominate 2-3 candidates, who enter a pool of 125 candidates; final selection of eighteen recipients is made in December by the Luce Foundation.
Marshall Scholarships provide for two or three years of study at any university in Great Britain, where students may pursue a graduate or undergraduate degree in any subject. Candidates may apply in any year prior to their 26th birthday. Selection is based on an outstanding academic record (minimum 3.7 GPA, excluding freshman year), participation in extra-curricular activities and evidence of individual initiative and public leadership ability.
http://www.britishcouncil-usa.org/
Rhodes Scholarships provide for two to three years of study at Oxford University, where students may pursue a graduate or undergraduate degree in any subject. Candidates must be unmarried and may apply in any year prior to their 24th birthday. Selection is based on the combination of a reasonably strong academic record, prominent participation in extra-curricular activities, leadership potential and character. Application is made through the state where the candidate resides or attends college. Four scholars are then chosen from each of eight regions (for a total of 32 scholars).
E-mail Forwarding Service for Alumni
The Haverford College e-mail forwarding service provides a permanent e-mail address no matter how often you change e-mail providers. This free service establishes a link between the College's mail server and your local email provider. E-mail received at Haverford is instantly forwarded to you. When you register for this e-mail forwarding service you will also be given the opportunity to have your e-mail address included on an online directory available to the Haverford community. For more information, visit http://www.haverford.edu/admindepthome/alumni/hcamail/forward.html or contact the Alumni Office at 610-896-1001.
Alumni Directory -- Hard Copy and Online
The 2000-2001 edition of the Haverford College Alumni Directory is in the works. Help us craft both the hard copy and the online versions by filling out a brief survey. Visit http://www.haverford.edu/admindepthome/alumni/netfords.html
The Haverford College Bookstore is now online, with its secured catalogue of textbooks, clothing, gifts, music, and general books available at https://www.admin.haverford.edu/bookstore/. Come browse!
Lambda, the Alumni Association's network of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and other interested alumni is seeking to improve its mailing list and involve more alumni in its activities which include: an annual symposium during Haverford's alumni weekend, get-togethers in New York and San Francisco, a career directory, and activities with students and other members of the Haverford community. If you are not on our mailing list and would like to be, please contact the Alumni Office or Theo Posselt '94 at 510-891-9776 or tposselt@dttus.com.
HAVERFORD RESOURCES VIA THE WEB AND E-MAIL
The URL www.haverford.edu/admindepthome/alumni/hcalumni.html is the Alumni Association home page. Here you will find reunion information, regional events and links to the Bi-College News and Haverford, the alumni magazine. The Association home page also can connect you with the home pages and email addresses of other on-line Haverfordians. To subscribe to our alumni list server, send the following message to listproc@haverford.edu: subscribe hc-alum name and class year.
Want to create a class web page? The Alumni Association is seeking alumni volunteers to create class web pages. For further information, please contact the Alumni Office.
For further information on any of these or other Alumni Association programs, please call or write the Alumni Relations Office at 610-896-1004.