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Show 36 1980-8- 1 THIS IS CEU Money sources there for college students Mary Ann Maxin says theres of money looking for many of the two million college-bounstudents scratching around for financial help. Miss Maxin directs Scholarship Search, the research arm of the Student Assistance Council of America which has approximately 250,000 money sources for such students in its computer memory bank. Theyre offered by clubs, corporations, unions, railroads, ethnic, religious and patriotic groups, and generous people. Miss Maxin, a former research librarian, estimates the total dollar value at $500 million. There are many strange people with strange ways of givsays ing their money away, Robert Freede, who owns the firm. The National Turkey Federation gives two $500 awards to high school students involved in a turkey project who choose a science as their college major. In 1680, a London merchant named Pennoyer set up a 44 educational fund for a descendant bearing his name and for a resident of the colony of New Haven attending Cam(now Harbridge College vard). The accrued value and interest are now staggering. In 1885, William Stanislaus Murphy of Boston created a college fund, for named Murphy if Harvard admitted them. Harvard also has the for waiting money namesakes of other donors: AnHaven, derson, Borden, Downer, Baxendaie. And Yale has $1 ,000 a year for four years for those named Deforest and Leavenworth. There are scholarships for the sons of fishermen, the daughters of farmers and widows, the children of taxi drivers, a lot d turkey-relate- d Romanian-American- s, " ''1 I J and those bearing the names of Dutch colonial settlers. The Union Pacific offers 300 scholarships to members of the Future Farmers of America and clubs if Union Pacific trains run through the counties in which they live. There arc about 3, 000 scholMiss arships for golf caddies, Maxin says. After graduation from the University of Arizona, Freede started as a mail room clerk in an ad agency and then built a successful marketing busines. His son, Eric, 26, is in marketing; his daughters, Leslie, 30, and Karen, 27, are teachers. The college bills were $20,000 a year. Its higher now, and the squeeze is tightest families. on Freede considered retiring but started instead Scholarship Search in 1972. The first one 1 hired was Mary Ann because she was an he expert research librarian, says. I call her Max. Miss Maxin, a bright blonde with an amazing memory for facts and figures, is the daughter of immigrant factory workers. She left the Passaic, N.J. public library to work as a researcher in an ad agency, where she got into computerology. Shes not a college graduate. 4-- middle-incom- Producing Energy for Industry VALLEY CAMP OP UTAH, Inc. Clear Creek e I had no money, she explains. Scholarship Search wasnt around. hunters send Scholarship $1.00 to help cover postage to Scholarship Search at 1775 Broadway, Suite 627U, New York, NY 10019, for an information package and an application for their student profiles and all essential background detail. When filled out, its returned with a $45 service fee. Its coded, punched and fed into the computer, which matches it with all the scholarships and grants for which they qualify. Most computer reports consource-item- s tain of potential funds which the applicant is eligible to receive. If the computer program cannot find any sources for which the applicant is eligible, there is a complete refund, Freede says. Pedro Fierro Jr., 18, of Gary, Ind., son of a steel worker, was matched with 25 possible scholarships, the maximum. He got three: $3000 from the United Steel Workers, a $1,200 Joseph German Silver grant; $1,100 10-2- 0 from the University of Rochester, where he is majoring in biology. All three are renewable every year if he maintains good grades. Craig Biggs, 18, of Lompoc, Calif., also qualified for 25 scholarships and won three: the $1,200 Holy Cross Award, the $1,000 Alexander Bee scholarship, and the $300 Catholic grant for black students. All are renewable. Craig, now at Notre Dame, wants to be a dentist. Not all applicants are that bright and fortunate. Some only get $250 for one year. How many of the thousands of appliants do get scholarships? We dont really know, but we Freede admits, 2,000 applicants every summer, and two out of five tell us that they get from $300 to $3,000. Miss Maxin updates the scholarship sources regularly. The trend now, she says, is for private donors to make awards based more on achievement than need, leaving that field to the federal and state spot-chec- k oNation turning sports crazy Continued podiatrist to make sure that there are no undetected foot or leg problems. If there are, the doctor will prescribe for you. 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