The ASME Auxiliary encourages university mechanical engineering departments to apply for the Lucy and Charles W. E. Clarke Scholarship for incoming freshman.

Last year, the Auxiliary received only three applications for the six available scholarships, which aim to encourage beginning students to become engineers. Lucille Clarke's motivation for funding the scholarships derived from the fact that her father did not finish engineering school. She felt that if students could receive financial help as beginning freshmen, their chance of success would improve.

Robert Bennett, the ASME liaison to the Auxiliary, attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology student section meeting last September to personally present two of the scholarships awarded by the university's mechanical engineering department. This was the third year he has done so. NJIT will not be able to win again in the coming year because there is now a limit of three years in a row that a particular school can win.

Scholarships are usually awarded to the person or group of people who write the best application, so please encourage your best writers to submit the application.

— Ella Baldwin-Viereck
Auxiliary publicity chair

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