Show l. l Community College Scholarship Remains Unclaimed By Jill Duff Duff Hoppes Hoppes Ridder Knight-Ridder Newspapers SANFORD Fla What if a school tried to give away a scholarship scholarship scholarship scholar scholar- ship but nobody wanted it That's apparently what has happened happened happened hap hap- to Seminole Community College wanted to award a full year two-year scholarship to the lucky baby born closest to last years year's groundbreaking for the schools school's new Oviedo campus More than four months after the Dec 4 groundbreaking ceremony the college college college col col- col- col lege still doesn't have a scholarship recipient spokesman Robert Lyles said the college worked with area hospitals the Greater Oviedo Chamber of Commerce and the media to publicize the scholarship The hospitals notified parents whose newborns were eligible but none of the parents ever came forward forward forward for for- ward to claim the scholarship said Pam Weber executive director for forthe forthe forthe the Seminole Community College Foundation Perhaps the timing was a bit off Lyles and Weber said The scholarship scholarship scholarship scholar scholar- ship was announced during the holidays holidays holidays hol hol- Lyles said Weber suggested that new parents may have been t too o busy with their new bundles of joy to think of anything else Maybe they're not thinking Hey a scholarship Weber said a long way away Weber said still wants to give away the scholarship to tie in with the Oviedo campus Parents in the Oviedo and Winter Winter Winter Win Win- ter Springs areas are eligible to qualify for the Baby Nest Egg Scholarship Residents must live in one of the following ZIP codes or The scholarship will be provided provided provided pro pro- vided by Helen Von Fournier and the Foundation The 20 million campus scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to open next year is to be built at Old Lockwood Road and Lockwood Lock- Lock Lockwood lockwood wood Boulevard just outside Oviedo Construction was to have started in February Lyles said but it is now scheduled to begin this week serves about fulland fulland fulland full- full and time part-time students student at its main campus in Sanford and a smaller center in the Wekiva area Nearly 1000 students will be beable beable beable able to take classes at Oviedo when construction of the square foot campus is finished |