TBA Scholarships
2010
year in review
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Seven area high school seniors who demonstrated a financial need, academic achievement and community involvement each received a $7,500 academic scholarship.
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Five scholarships of $2,000, $1,500. $1,000, $750 and $500 were awarded to area high school drafting and design students in TBA’s annual Young Designers’ competition.
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$4,000 total was awarded to two local Twelve local high school students, along with two schools, were awarded a total of high schools with the highest and $62,250 in scholarship funds from the Tidewater Builders Association Scholarship second highest number of entries in Foundation. the Young Designers’ Competition.
Recipients of academic scholarships come from varied circumstances — some are the first in their families to attend college, some are living as an independent status, some work almost full-time jobs to make ends meet and others have overcome difficult circumstances and strive above all to succeed. Since 1965, the TBA Scholarship Foundation has provided more than $1.5 million in financial assistance to 411 students. TBA continues to provide scholarship funding during the 2010-2011 academic year to 31 other past recipients.
Student Day at Homearama
The Fall Homearama offered area high school drafting and design students, along with their teachers and chaperones, free entry to Student Day on Oct. 26. More than 300 students attended, many with notebooks and cameras in hand, taking copious notes and pictures. This experience has proved to be an opportunity to enhance the students design creativity.
The TBA Scholarship Foundation received $2,000 from Howard W. and Nancye C. Weisberg. Howard Weisberg, one of the Scholarship Foundation founders, remembers the foundation annually with a donation. The TBA Scholarship Foundation is a 501-C3 charitable organization. Tax-deductible contributions in any amount are accepted from companies or individuals. If you would like to contribute to this foundation, or if you would like to contribute to the construction of a scholarship house, please contact Mary Hearring, at 305-9081 or mhearring@tbaonline.org.
2010 Scholarship Foundation contributions
The Breeden Co., the 2010 Tidewater Multifamily Housing Council Scholarship Apartment, donated one year’s rent to the scholarship foundation in the amount of $12,000. To date, the TMHC scholarship goal of $100,000 to establish a standalone annual scholarship, has raised $67,542. Nathan and Beth Jaffe also donated $250 on behalf of TBA President Bill Halprin to the endowment.
Students from area high schools and colleges took part in Student Day at Homearama, which allowed them to see firsthand how architectural renderings become homes. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
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