The Kathy Rolfe Bridge Scholarship is administered through the Truman Heartland Community Foundation. This $500 scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who are former bridge students of Kathy Rolfe or to students of students. In addition, the applicant must have at least a B average and have earned at least 1 masterpoint (black, red, silver, or gold) and be a member of ACBL. The scholarship can be renewed for an additional 3 years if the recipient maintains at least a B average in post-secondary work and earns additional masterpoints (or fractions thereof) in each succeeding year. Applications are available through this website (click here), through local high schools, and through the Truman Heartland Community Foundation.
So if you are interested in pursuing this scholarship and need practice or a partner to play at a duplicate club, keep informed about when Kids Bridge practice nights are being offered or call me when you are ready to go play duplicate. I'll help get you started! I'll play with you for up to 4 sessions, paying my own entry fee. For sessions 5 to 10, you'll need to pay my entry fee. Beyond that, I charge $30 to play with me.
Competition Scholarship:
Working in conjunction with the Unit 131 board, we will once again be offering a student section of bridge players at the Spring Sectional Tournament on SATURDAY April 28, 2012 at Unity Village in Lee's Summit, MO. The students will play in their own section if there are at least 3 tables. If at least 10 students don't participate, those attending will play in the 0-299 section with the adults. This will be a pair game starting at 1 p.m. so you need to be there by about 12:45 at the latest. This is for students in high school or younger with less than 20 masterpoints. Winners will be awarded masterpoints and the Unit is providing a trophy to the top student winners as well. In addition, Kathy Rolfe is providing a $50 scholarship to the top winners residing within Unit 131 through the Eugene J. Rolfe Educational Fund administered through the Truman Heartland Community Foundation. The cost of play will be $6 to play.Contact me via e-mail or call 816-237-0519 to let me know you plan on playing.
This next scholarship is not associated with Bridge but rather with Engineering, which was both my late husband's profession as well as my own. It is available only to graduates of the Lee's Summit Public High Schools or to Archbishop O'Hara High School. If you are planning on majoring in Engineering, graduating from one of these high schools, and have some music performance in your background please consider applying. This scholarship is the Eugene J. Rolfe Memorial Scholarship also available through the Truman Heartland Community Foundation. Click here to download the application.
