{"id":44116,"date":"2021-11-11T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=44116"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:24:42","slug":"scholarship-richard-e-fitzner-memorial-scholarship-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/scholarship-richard-e-fitzner-memorial-scholarship-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship: RICHARD E. FITZNER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more-->Offered by The Washington Chapter of The Wildlife Society<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Application available\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/REF_Scholarship_App_2014.docx\"><span style=\"color: #005b7f;font-family: inherit\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Application materials must be received by the Scholarship Chairperson by December 15th each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fund shall provide up to $2,500 toward the tuition of the selected student(s) for the fall term during the year in which the scholarship is granted. The funds shall be paid to the Registrar at the college or university being attended, and credited toward the student\u2019s tuition for the fall semester\/quarter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Dick Fitzner was a wildlife biologist, a wildlife educator, a wildlife artist, a hunter, fisherman, naturalist, and a past president of the Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society. Dick always offered enthusiasm, inspiration, and encouragement to the many wildlife biologists that knew him. Through this memorial scholarship fund, in Dick Fitzner\u2019s name, the Washington Chapter of The Wildlife Society hopes to help encourage and inspire future wildlife biologists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Purpose of the fund:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">To provide financial aid to wildlife oriented biology students who will have junior or senior standing at a college or university in the state of Washington during the fall semester\/quarter of the year in which the scholarship is awarded. Applications are due by December 15 each year. The scholarship is awarded during that winter for the following academic year. Preference will be given to students with a demonstrated need for financial aid; a history of experiences, activities, and interests in the field of wildlife biology; college course work applicable to field biology; and grades. College transcripts and two letters of reference from instructors or past employers must accompany the application form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Scholarship fund administration:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The Scholarship trust fund is administered by a four person Board of Trustees. The Board consists of the Scholarship Committee Chairperson, the Chapter President, the Chapter President-elect, and Lisa Fitzner. Scholarship distribution is determined by the same Board of Trustees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The Board of Trustees reserves the right not to award a scholarship or to award more than one scholarship during a year, depending on the Board\u2019s opinion of the applicants\u2019 qualifications and the availability of funds. All Board decisions are final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Address correspondence concerning the Trust and the Scholarship to the Scholarship Committee Chairperson:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Merci Clinton, <a href=\"mailto:scholarships@watws.org\"><strong>scholarships@watws.org<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9433,"featured_media":34100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[123,55,51,131,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44116"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44237,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44116\/revisions\/44237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}