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.
The Sarah Brown Cannon Scholarship
This generous endowment was established in 2021 by Calvin
Cannon and family in the name of his wife, Sarah Brown Cannon, in
honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Cannon spent many
years in Girl Scouts, having earned her Curved Bar, the highest award
in Girl Scouting at that time, in 1964, participated in a national
Wider Opportunity and many other travel opportunities, and served as a
leader for two troops, a day camp volunteer, and a board member of the
former Piedmont Area Girl Scout Council in Spartanburg, SC.
Each of the Cannons' two daughters earned her Girl Scout Gold Award,
and both are troop leaders. One of their granddaughters also earned
her Gold Award in 2018.
Mrs. Cannon firmly believes that Girl
Scouting equips girls for success, both now and in the future.
Mountains to Midlands annually awards this scholarship of $1,000 to a
Girl Scout who has earned her Gold Award, the highest honor a girl can
achieve in Girl Scouting and is going on to further her
education. Girl Scouts in Greenville and Spartanburg 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 is April 1.
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).
