Scholarships
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
A message to graduating Girl Scout Ambassadors of Girl Scouts of
South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands, Inc. from the council’s
College Scholarship Committee:
All Girl Scout Gold Award recipients who are Girl Scout
Ambassadors in the Mountains to Midlands council and who will graduate
from high school this spring are eligible to apply for the
Chandler-Burns College Scholarship and the Pauline Patterson Memorial
College Scholarship. The applicant must be a registered member of the
council, in 12th grade at the time of application, a Girl Scout Gold
Award recipient, and reside in South Carolina. Linked below are the
application and reference forms used to apply for these
scholarships.
Chandler-Burns Scholarship
This generous gift for girls is made possible by the
Chandler-Burns family, whose women have a three-generation history of
Girl Scout membership. For Christmas 2001, Ron Burns established an
endowment at the Central Carolina Community Foundation in the name of
his wife, Kris Burns, to honor her mother, Bonnie Chandler, and her
late grandmother, Mildred Annis Chandler. Mountains to Midlands awards
this scholarship up to $1,500 annually to a college-bound Girl Scout
who has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor a girl can
achieve in Girl Scouting. Applicants from Richland and Lexington
counties will be given preference.
Pauline Patterson
Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship was established in
May 2000 to honor the memory of Pauline M. Patterson, a very special
friend and colleague. As a staff member of one of Mountains to
Midlands’ legacy councils, the Old 96 Girl Scout Council, Pauline
served as a Field Director from 1988-1992 and as the Council’s first
Older Girl Program Specialist from 1992-2000. In the older girl
position, Pauline designed programming that was fun and adventurous,
that reached beyond troop activities and provided girls with the
incentive to look beyond themselves. She challenged girls to see that
they can literally do anything if they have the desire and are willing
to work hard. Pauline offered girls choices and challenges, taught
them to accept the world with open arms, and inspired them to breathe
in the wonderment of all life offered them. As a tribute to Pauline
Patterson’s enthusiasm for life and learning, Mountains to Midlands is
pleased to award this $500 scholarship annually to a high school
senior for college tuition.
The College Scholarship Application deadline has been extended to June 14.
Be sure to select references that are familiar with you and your
accomplishments. References should not be relatives. Please allow them
ample time to complete the form. The College Scholarship Committee
encourages applicants to pay particular attention to the essay portion
of the application. It is often the deciding factor in selecting the
scholarship recipient. Review the materials carefully for instructions
and deadlines.
If you have any questions, contact customercare@gssc-mm.org,
or 1.800.849.GIRL (4475).
