With the holiday season behind us, it is time to publicize the scholarships and time for submission of applications for the 2001/2002 academic year. Time really does fly, and the deadline for getting the completed applications to the committees is March 15. Applications can be downloaded from the Web site, by going to www.asme.org.

ASME members and members of the Auxiliary in particular are asked to spread the word that we have loan money available to students in the amount of $3,000 per loan at 6 percent interest, which does not start to accrue until the student has graduated. To obtain a loan application form, please look on the Auxiliary section of the Web site as well. Debbie Mercer is the Student Loan Fund chair.

At the Congress meeting of the Auxiliary, Robert Bennett and Barbara Goldstein gave a report about the Lucy and Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship. The report included the following information.

On Aug. 28, information about $30,000 that will be available from the Clarke Scholarship, and through the Auxiliary and the ASME Foundation, was sent to 512 colleges and universities, with a return deadline of Oct. 20. Nearly 30 institutions responded.

The Lucy and Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship Committee will select five schools to share the scholarship money. A $6,000 award will be made to each school, with each one deciding how to disburse the money to qualifying students.

Barbara Goldstein was elected chair of the Lucy and Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship Committee for the 2001/2002 academic year.

— Ella Baldwin-Viereck
Auxiliary publicity chair

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