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Show DimesandjiicklL9 Minorities getf help . Their first studen,,.- 1970 and they of thel6studeni;? ; gram to graduate. S f ? - j" serve as officers and directors, to actively solicit funds and to help guide the program. A student must apply for financial assistance from the Alberta Henry Scholarship Foun-1 dation. Then, when the student is chosen for assistance, a member of the Foundation confers with the school that he or she wants to attend. The Foundation makes arrangements ar-rangements to pay the school directly for the benefit of the student stu-dent receiving the scholarship. No money is paid directly to the student. stu-dent. The money is used to pay for tuition, books, housing, and other necessary expenses. "Good relations with the colleges help us so much in this program," said Mrs. Henry. She pointed out that the Continuing Con-tinuing Education programs at different dif-ferent universities help students to fill in required credits so that they may become full time students at colleges and universities. Mrs. Henry is now taking night classes at the University and hopes to be able to attend full time in September. A warm smile, a good attitude, and well-defined goals are all a part of Alberta Henry. Years ago Mrs. Henry, even though she had had no college education ed-ucation herself, felt strongly that disadvantaged minority students who wanted a university education educa-tion had to have help-encouragement and money. She started collecting dimes, nickels and quar-ters quar-ters from her friends and neighbors. Then she went outside, and through an auxiliary committee commit-tee of the New Hope Baptist Church in Salt Lake City, went to the entire community seeking support sup-port for her program. As Mrs. Henry remembers it, those were times of lots of hard work to get money and a lot of contact with the students she was helping. But, working with the church group, she found that she was not allowed to send some of the students with lower grades on to college even though they had high potential. After some time she went to business and community leaders to seek support for an independent indepen-dent scholarship group that would allow her to send other students on in their education. Many of them helped financially for a number of years, and agreed to Mrs. Alberta Henry, founder of the Alberta Henry Scholarship Foundation, gets minority students financial help and encouragement. |
