ARTBA-TDF Accepting Applications for Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, April 3, 2000

Contacts: 
Matt Jeanneret 
Brad Sant
202-289-4434

 

Washington, D.C.–The American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) is now accepting nominations for the Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship Program for the 2000-2001 academic year. The program provides college financial assistance for children of highway construction workers killed in the line of duty.

The one-of-its-kind program was launched through a generous $100,000 gift from two Roanoke, Va., highway contractors: 1999 ARTBA Chairman Stan Lanford, Lanford Brothers Co., and his brother, Past ARTBA Chairman (1991) Jack Lanford, Adams Construction Co.

The scholarships have a value of $2,500 and are supported by contributions from highway construction industry executives and firms nationwide.

 Eligibility Requirements:  

  • Applicants must be the sons, daughters or legally adopted children of highway workers who have died in roadway construction zone accidents;
  • An applicant’s parent must have been employed by a transportation construction firm or a transportation public agency at the time of his or her death;
  • The scholarship award must be used to attend a post-secondary institution of learning that requires a high school diploma or Graduate Equivalent Degree (G.E.D.).

 Scholarship Selection Criteria:

 There are four criteria considered for selection of scholarship recipients:

  • Demonstrated need for financial assistance to attend school.
  • Past academic performance record— high school grades for new college entrants or cumulative college grade point average and academic performance for applicants already attending an institution of higher learning. A minimum cumulative academic performance of at least a "C" grade is required.
  • A typewritten statement of no more than 200 words that explains his or her reasons for wanting to continue their education.
  • Letters of recommendation—in addition to those required by two teachers—that are offered in support of the applicant’s nomination.

            Applications must be received by the ARTBA-TDF by June 1, 2000. To obtain a copy of the application form, contact ARTBA’s Rhonda Haskins at 202-289-4434 or go online to the association’s Internet website at www.artba.org. Scholarship winners will be announced on or before August 1, 2000. 
            
          ARTBA, founded in 1902, is the only national association that exclusively represents the collective interests of all sectors of the U.S. transportation construction industry before the White House, Congress, federal agencies, media and the public. The U.S. transportation construction industry that ARTBA represents generates more than $160 billion in U.S. economic activity annual and provides employment for more than 2.2 million Americans.

 The association created the Transportation Development Foundation in 1985 to support research and education activities.

 

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Application available here (Word format)

 

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