January 18, 2002 NEWS RELEASE

SCHOLARSHIP MONEY MAILED BY CSF OF BGM

The Citizens Scholarship Foundation of BGM (a Dollars for Scholars Chapter) has mailed out scholarship money, the week of January 12, 2002, in the amount of $20,233.00 to all students who have scholarship money coming.

The $20,233.00 is made up of three different scholarship periods. They are: 2001 scholarships totaling $14,800.00, 2000 scholarships totaling $4,433.00, and 1999 scholarships totaling $1,000.00.

Of the 2001 graduates who received a scholarship there are 4 who have not yet requested their funds, and one who went into the military. 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 to 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 2001, $500.00 at the beginning of 2002, and then the remainder if under $500.00 in the fall of 2002.

Please remember you also have one year to start using the scholarship awarded. For those students who received scholarships in May 2001, you have until August 15, 2002 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 student enters 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 CSF of BGM, you help to 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 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 can contact Marie Roudabush, Board of Trustees member for City of Brooklyn, or any other board member. You can also write to Box 469, Brooklyn, IA 52211.

Saying for the week: "The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer." -- Army Corp of Engineers