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Scholarships
Announced For First-Year Students NCRA ONLINE
NEWS FLASH
September 9, 2005
The Scholarships Task Force of the National Court Reporters
Foundation announced last month that it will be awarding four
$1,400 scholarships to first-year students. Candidates must submit
a resume and a 500-word essay on "What It Has Meant to Me to
Complete the First Year of This Program." They also have to agree
to participate in NCRA's Virtual Mentors Program.
Deadline for submitting materials
and the appropriate applications is Wednesday, September 14.
First-year scholarship information is available in the
Foundation section of the NCRA Web site, or call the Foundation at
800-272-6262.
Foundation Scholarship Winners Announced
Congratulations to
Student Intern Scholarship winners Alanna Leeper from Tennessee
Career College and Denyse Stone from Sarasota County Technical
Institute. Alanna and Denyse are the first recipients of this
new scholarship and will receive $700 each to be applied to
tuition and books.
Also,
congratulations to the first recipient of the Disabled Student
Scholarship, Kristy Bozeman from Gadsden State Community
College. Kristy will receive a $1,000 to be applied to her
tuition and books.
Adopt-A
Student Recipients Announced
NCRA ONLINE
NEWS FLASH
June 3, 2005
Congratulations to the following students who were the
lucky recipients in our Adopt-a-Student program
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Kathy Waldner,
Gateway Community College
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Nicole Gilman,
Court Reporting Institute of Seattle
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Cynthia Dillon,
Green River Community College
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Brenda Louthan,
Butler Community College
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Charlene White,
Humphreys College
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Illyse Klemann,
Las Vegas College
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Paulette
Ferrante, Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville
And special thanks go to our
generous sponsors:
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Jardene Platt,
RPR, Chatsworth, Calif.
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Anita Johnston,
RPR, CRR, CRI, Las Vegas, Nev.
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Maria Lairdieson
O'Neill, RPR, Springfield, Pa.
You can have
direct impact on a student's life by participating in our
Adopt-a-Student program. For just $60 you can sponsor a student's
membership in NCRA for a whole year. Imagine giving a student one
year of access to all that NCRA has to offer. Students are
selected by a random drawing in mid-May from all entry forms
received by the end of April.
If you'd like to
participate and sponsor a student, please e-mail
Amy Davidson or call her
at 800-272-6272. Your support could keep a student involved and
encourage them to continue in their quest to graduate.
FRANK SARLI
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
The Frank Sarli
Memorial Scholarship is a tribute to Frank Sarli, who loved life, laughter
and court reporting. He loved court reporting students. He gave unselfishly
of his time to meet with and speak to reporting students and to help them
on their way to successful careers. He served many years on committees and
boards of the National Court Reporters Association, which guides the education
of court reporting students. This scholarship is given to help a deserving
student who is nearing graduation. Current student
NCRA members attending NCRA-approved court reporting programs are eligible
to be nominated for the NCRF Frank Sarli Memorial Scholarship in the amount
of $500. The full list of criteria to be met by a nominee is as follows:
1.The nominee must be a current NCRA student member.
2.The nominee must be enrolled in an NCRA-approved court
reporting program.
3.The nominee must have passed at least one of the court reporting
program's Q & A tests at a minimum of 200 words per minute.
4.The nominee must have a grade point average of at least a 3.5
overall, based on a 4.0 standard.
5.The nominee must have a demonstrated need for financial
assistance.
6.Nominees must possess all the qualities exemplified by a
professional court reporter, including professional attitude,
demeanor, dress and motivation.
7.All criteria must be confirmed and verified by the submitting court
reporting program. One nomination
from each NCRA-approved court reporting program will be accepted. Nominations are due not later than February 28, 2003.
Nomination forms are available by calling 800-272-NCRA (6272) or by visiting
the NCRF Web page at http://www.ncraonline.org/foundation/education/sarli.shtml.
The winner of the scholarship will be selected by a random drawing from all
qualified nominees.
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The
National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) is proud to announce that the
winner of this year's Frank Sarli Memorial Scholarship is Adam Stock, a student
at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. NCRF awards this
scholarship annually to a deserving student who meets specific criteria and
is nominated by his or her school.
Each
NCRA-approved court reporting program is allowed to nominate one student,
and the winner is selected by lottery drawing at NCRA's Midyear Conference
and is officially announced and recognized at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday,
August 2, 2003.
Prior Recipients:
2005 Sherry Lindsay, College
of Legal Arts, Portland, OR
2003 Adam Stock, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2002 Peggy Presson Davis, Court Reporting Institute of Dallas,
TX
2001 Linette K. Neal, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis,
MO
2000 Helen Oh, MacCormac College, Elmhurst, IL.
1999 Suzanne Levesque, New England Tech. Inst., New Britain, CT
1998 Cheryl Nordstrom, Rasmussen College, Minnetonka, MN
1997 Melissa Slimmer, Rasmussen College, St. Cloud, MN
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