January 5, 2000 NEWS RELEASE

SCHOLARSHIP MONEY TO BE MAILED BY CSF OF BGM

The Citizens Scholarship Foundation of BGM (a Dollars for Scholar Chapter) will be mailing out scholarship money of $10,235.00 to all students who have scholarship money coming. The paperwork is in the process and money will be mailed around January 15, 2000.

The $10,235.00 is made up of three different scholarship periods. They are: 1999 regular scholarships totaling $6,850.00, 1998 regular scholarships totaling $2,300.00 and the 1998 2^nd year scholarships totaling $1,085.00.

Of the 1999 graduates who received a scholarship there are 9 who have not yet requested their funds. Please contact J. C. Miller at 522-9206 (work) if you have any questions about your scholarship money.

It’s the Foundations policy that scholarship money not exceed $500.00 per semester. If you received a scholarship over $1,200.00, for example, you would receive $500.00 in the fall of 1999, $500.00 at the beginning of 2000, and then the remainder if under $500.00 in the fall of 2000.

Please remember you also have one (1) year to start using the scholarship awarded. For those students who received a scholarship in May 1999 you have until August 15, 2000 to start to use it. Scholarships not used are then transferred into the Elsie & Skip Motes Second Chance Fund. The exception to the one year rule is if the students enter the Armed Forces of the United States then they have one year after being released from active duty to use the scholarship.

When you support the CSF of BGM, you help open doors to education. You are telling our students we believe in them, have confidence in their ability, and support their efforts to better themselves and their community. You are helping to make that difference.

If you would like to be a part of the Foundation in any way please contact a Board member, or write to the address below. We will be happy to put you in touch with the right person.

Anyone wishing to make a contribution to the Foundation please contact Becky Edelen, Board of Trustee representative for TTT, or any other board member. You can also write to Box 469, Brooklyn, Iowa 52211.

Saying for the week: "Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose."- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Village Blacksmith