The Foreign Service Journal, October 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2014 63 AFSA NEWS AFSAAwards Nearly $200,000 in Financial Aid Scholarships AFSA has granted $199,300 in financial aid scholarships for the 2014-2015 academic year. Avery Smith (third from left, above), a sophomore at Oberlin College, and his sister, Amelia, a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are two of the 54 recipients of the this year’s AFSA Financial Aid Scholarships. The need-based schol- arships are awarded to children of AFSA members for undergraduate study at a college or university. Fall semester checks totaling $100,650 were sent on Aug. 1 to the students’ schools, with individual awards ranging from $3,000 to $5,000. AFSA’s $5.4 million endowment funds 59 per- petual scholarships (some students received more than one); in addition, there are seven AFSA annual and trust scholarships donated by individuals and organization such as AAFSW and DACOR. Applications for the 2015-16 scholarship will be available Nov. 15, at www. afsa.org/scholar, and more information on the scholar- ship program can be found at the same site. n From left: Ian Houston, AFSA executive director; Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn, chair of the Scholarship Committee; Avery Smith; and Lori Dec, scholarship director. AFSA/ÁSGEIRSIGFÚSSON