The Illinois Pilots Association

The Illinois Pilots Association is offering a scholarship to a college student majoring in an aviation-oriented curriculm. To be eligible the student must be:

• a resident of the State of Illinois
• majoring in an aviation-oriented curriculm
• a full-time student at an Illinois college or university

The scholarship is for one year in the sum of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00). The recipient may re-apply for the following year. The award is used to defray tuition costs to a full-time student at the Illinois school of the applicant's choice, and it will be sent directly to the college.

The applicant must submit a completed application from (or equivalent information), evidence of strong academic performance, including a transcript of grades, and three recommendations, at least one academic, which must be received no later than March 1, 2011.

Notification will be sent to all of those with complete applications as soon as possible after the results are known. The person receiving the scholarship will be asked to submit a recent picture and agree to website publication of his/her name and likeness on www.illinoispilots.com before the check will be sent to the school.

Please submit an application for consideration between January 1 and March 1, 2011 for the 2011-2012 scholarship.

IPA members have been aiding promising young students of aviation through the IPA Memorial Scholarship since 1983, and Ruth Frantz has been the chairman of the IPA Memorial Scholarship Committee since 1995.

The application deadline for the next scholarship is March 1, 2011.

Ruth says:

"I send application forms to Illinois schools as well as agencies and individuals who request them, receive the completed application forms and grade them on several criteria such as GPA, completeness of application, goal, etc. The top two to five applicants are then reviewed by IPA board members for a final consensus on the recipient. Some years when there has been enough money and more than one exceptional candidate, two scholarships have been given in one year. Notification letters are sent to all of the applicants (that is the hard part because often there are several really good applications), the recipient is invited to the IPA meetings and given a complimentary membership in the IPA for one year." Click on these documents for a complete set of application materials. Most wordprocessing programs can read rtf files, and if you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free.. IPA Memorial Scholarship Basic Information Sheet (Adobe Acrobat Reader pdf format) IPA Memorial Scholarship 2010 Full Set of Application Forms pdf format(download, print, hand-write, and mail; includes three copies of the Recommendation Form below) IPA Memorial Scholarship 2010 Recommendation Form, single copy only pdf format (download, print, mail or deliver a copy to each of the three people who agree to recommend you, and print and mail (not email) their signed copies to the IPA Scholarship Chairperson; three copies are needed per application, and three copies are included in the Full Set above) IPA Memorial Scholarship 2010 Full Set of Application Forms rtf format (download this .rtf file, enter data via keyboard as much as desired, and email/mail to the IPA Scholarship Chairperson; includes three copies of the Recommendation Form) IPA Memorial Scholarship 2010 Recommendation Form, single copy only, rtf format (download this .rtf file, email a copy to each of the three people who agree to recommend you, and ask them to enter data via keyboard, print and mail (not email) their signed copies to the IPA Scholarship Chairperson.) It is customary and courteous for the applicant to provide postage and envelopes for recommendation forms, or at least offer to do so. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free. IPA Memorial Scholarship 2010 Recipient Samantha Danielle McCue Bartlett, IL Samantha Danielle McCue of Bartlett, Illinois has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Illinois Pilots Association Memorial Scholarship. Samantha is a sophomore at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign where she is working toward her career goal to become an employee of NASA, majoring in aviation human factors and aerospace engineering. Samantha states that she loves flying and will continue to fly as a private pilot for the rest of her life. Also, she is involved in several athletic activities and school organizations, works at two jobs and finds time for some volunteer work. In her application Samantha writes: “In sixth grade I researched and wrote a fifty page paper throughout the year entitled NASA Technology that Benefits Mankind. Later that year I had my first opportunity to attend space camp and a few years later while I was a junior in high school I revisited Huntsville, Alabama and was a mission specialist at space academy. I was obsessed with all things NASA and wanted to know everything I could. Each rocket, module and shuttle I studied I thought about how much I would love to design and someday fly such amazing pieces of machinery. I visited every space center in the country with my family and each one got me more excited about the idea that someday I could actually work for NASA. Today, I continue to pursue this dream as a student in aerospace engineering and the professional pilot division at the University of Illinois. My ultimate goal would be to utilize the human factors, flight and engineering courses I will have taken to improve control design for spacecraft.” Congratulations and best wishes to Samantha Danielle McCue from the Illinois Pilots Association. IPA Memorial Scholarship Recipients Year Name Hometown 2010 Samantha Dannielle McCue Bartlett 2009 David Klemmer Carpentersville 2008 Elizabeth Ann Tosaw Sugar Grove 2007 Elizabeth Ann Tosaw Sugar Grove 2006 Brendan Brannick Freeport 2005 (no award) 2004 (no award) 2003 Rebecca Ann Kizior* Naperville 2003 Heather Marie Monaghan* West Dundee 2002 Rebecca Ann Kizior Naperville 2001 Heather Marie Monaghan West Dundee 2000 Terrence Charles Widrlechner Westmont 1999 Paxton James Corwin* Champaign 1999 Arnold Thomas Banks* Springfield 1998 Timothy W. Braun Oak Lawn 1997 Michael David Anderson Cherry Valley 1996 Benjamin John Keen Aurora 1995 Shellie L. Russell Romeoville 1994 Bonnie Lynn Kelly (deceased 5/25/98) Morris 1993 Duane S. Giorgetti Rockport 1992 Deborah Marie Koch Bethalto 1991 Thomas Patrick Jackson Elk Grove Village 1990 Matthew DiMarco Oakbrook 1989 Ann Zrinsky Westchester 1988 Cindy K. Sims* North Henderson 1988 Chris Kirin* Chicago 1987 (unknown) ? 1986 (unknown) ? 1985 Bradley Dale Fester Alton 1984 Robert William Boreham ? 1983 Scott Earl Oliver Springfield * denotes co-winners of the scholarship for years in which there were sufficient funds to award two scholarships.