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The Scholarship program was developed and implemented to do two important things. Firstly, the program is to provide the structure to manage and coordinate multiple scholarship funds. Secondly, and most importantly, it provides the organization with a means to 1) offer Seneca School students incentives to do their best in school and assist them to achieve their goals and 2) to provide the Seneca School with yet more good reasons for people from outside the immediate vicinity of Bear Valley to want to send their children to attend school in Seneca and consequently, increase the much needed enrollment figures to allow the school to remain in operation.
It is the hope of the TSSF Board of Directors that as the Foundation develops and matures, the Scholarship Program will consist of a variety of scholarship funds conceived and supported by individuals and/or different groups of Seneca Kids with similar "Seneca connections" and interests. The type and number of funds will only be limited by the ideas you have and the interest you have to start and support such a fund.
The first scholarship fund in the program was started in October 2002 upon approval of the Board of Directors. It is called The Seneca Logger Memorial Scholarship Fund (TSL). The background and details of TSL can be seen by clicking here. The first $500 scholarship was presented during the graduation ceremony of the 8th Grade Class of 2003 to the one and only applicant, but only after it was determined that the applicant met all of the minimum selection criteria and was deserving of a scholarship. This was a very special evening. Butter Shields, one of two of the remaining original members of the Seneca Logger Softball team of the 1930's was present to make the presentation. Click here to see more about the 2003 scholarship presentation.
To see more about presentations made since that first year, click the year you would like to see.
Anyone interested in learning more about the TSSF Scholarship Program or having ideas or an interest to participate, please feel free to write us an email message by clicking here .
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