Newtown High School Career Center Lists Available Scholarships

By SUSAN CONEY

Published: Mar 24, 2006 12:00 am

The Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified. A few of the scholarships, typically national ones, request that money be enclosed with the application.

The Career Center believes that students should not have to pay to apply for scholarships. If a student chooses to apply for a scholarship that charges a fee, however, the Career Center strongly advises that he or she first check its authenticity through the FTC Consumer Response Center, www.ftc.gov or 877-FTC-HELP, the National Fraud Information Center, www.fraud.org or 800-876-7060 or the Better Business Bureau, www.bbg.org or 703-276-0100.

Financial Planning Association Scholarship â One $1,000 scholarship award is available to a college-bound high school senior from a public school who is a US citizen from Fairfield County and interested in pursuing a course of study that will result in a degree in business, accounting, or related business field and lead to a possible career in financial planning. The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic achievement, character, financial need, and career potential. Applications must be postmarked by April 4 and received by April 7.

Newtown Babe Ruth Girls Softball Scholarship â One $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a high school senior girl who has played girls softball in Newtown. A transcript and a 300-word essay on âHow softball or sport programs influenced my lifeâ are required with the application. The Career Center has applications. The deadline for this scholarship is April 13.

Visiting Nurse Association of Newtown, Inc. â The VNA is offering the Anna E. Clow Scholarship for $4,000 to a Newtown student entering a nursing program leading to a BSN or RN. The $4,000 will be awarded when the recipient has entered the clinical portion of the nursing program. The Mary M. Holian Scholarship is for $2,000. Financial need, scholarship, personality, and recommendations are considered. Interviews will also be scheduled at NHS Career Center on April 27. Applications are due in the Career Center by April 24.

Delta Kappa Gamma Society International â A $300 book grant will be awarded to a senior graduating from a high school in the greater Danbury area who wishes to pursue a career in the field of education. The Career Center has applications. The deadline is April 25.

USS Connecticut Scholarship Program â This program was named for the State of Connecticutâs Flagship vessel, the submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22). The ship presents several scholarships annually to eligible members of the present and past crew or their dependents, and to eligible citizens of the state who plan to study at a Connecticut college or university.

All scholarship awards are based on a combination of academic merit and involvement in relevant academic, civic, professional and cultural organizations. Funding for this yearâs awards will total $15,000. The application deadline is May 15.

Caryl Stuart Stratton (September 19, 1939-July 8, 2025)

Community ‘Welcomed With Open Arms’ At Newtown Senior Center’s Open House

Snapshot: Tyler Pruneau

NewSylum Brewing Company Reaches $7,700 In Total Giving To NYFS

Newtown Parent Connection Presents Second Scholarship To High School Student

Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

Assembly Ordinance?

Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

Who is Calling Newtowners Stupid?

<< Jul 2025 >>
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
29	30	1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31	1	2

Log In

Newtown High School Career Center Lists Available Scholarships

Leave a Reply Cancel reply