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Roxanna Glass Memorial Scholarship for the Arts

The Roxanna Glass Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in the fall of 1995 by the friends and family of Roxanna Glass, valedictorian of the 1987 graduating class of Lewis County High School and a West Virginia Scholar. Roxanna graduated in music from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, then pursued her doctorate in music theory from City University of New York (CUNY). At the time of her death, Roxanna was completing the last semester of her course work on her doctorate and was teaching music at Baruch College in NYC. Roxanna was a composer, winning national honors as a young child and writing many pieces while in junior high and high school, as well as in college.

This scholarship is designed to encourage and enable students from Lewis County to pursue higher education in the fine arts.

Selection Criteria

The Roxanna Glass Memorial Scholarship Trust will offer a scholarship this year to a student graduating from Lewis County High School who will be attending a four-year college or university with the intention of studying music or the fine arts. A selection committee, appointed by the trustees, will select the scholarship recipient. Each member of the selection committee will have an equal vote. The committee will select the scholarship recipient from applicants, basing their decision on the following factors:

A.  Cumulative grade point average

B.  Recommendations from teachers and others

C.  Two essays submitted by the student on:

1. Their academic and/or professional goals and how the college/university experience will help them achieve these goals
2. Formative background in music or the fine arts and how these have helped shape their academic and/or professional goals

D.  Example(s) of work (tape of music, pictures of art works, writing samples, video of drama or dance, etc.)

E.  Extracurricular activities and community involvement

The scholarship fund will not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin or other similar characteristics.

Application Form - Applications must be postmarked by March 20th and received no later than March 30th!

Previous scholarship recipients include:

1996 - Bruce Sachs
1997 - Kelly Bennett
1998 - Leigh Ann Chipps
1999 - Adam Jones
2000 - Rachel Shreve
2001 - Allen Heath
2002 - Lisa Lamb
2003 - No recipient
2004 - Tami Jo Wilt
2005 - Abbie D. Brake
2006 - Ben Snyder
2007 - Aaron Latos

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