Grace B. Etheredge Scholarship for BRCC Students
To support a BRCC student who is planning to attend a four-year college or university. The scholarship recipient should be a student who plans to attend and has been accepted to attend a four-year college. The student should demonstrate scholastic ability (to include a student gifted in the arts), financial need, character, leadership ability, participation in extracurricular activities and demonstrated ability to complete a college education (in order for the scholarship to be renewed, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.0). Other things being equal, preference should be given to scholastic ability.
Grace Poli Scholarship
This scholarship supports a working mother who is a custodial parent and currently enrolled in college.
Gregory Stephen Wright The "Crossroads" Scholarship
Applicant should attend Hendersonville High School and be overcoming a significant and difficult challenge, such as a physical handicap, severe depression, the death of a parent, severe health complication, or having a child while in school and continuing successfully. Applicant also may be someone who faced such a challenge and then came back to school and is succeeding on a second effort. Preference will be given to those who inspire others by overcoming their challenge and who participate in extracurricular activities. An essay titled “My Crossroad Experience” is required as a part of the application to be co-signed by some significant other person in the applicant’s life who has been a part of helping in this life experience.
H. Louise Eaton Scholarship
This scholarship is to provide financial support for students with financial need who are pursuing an education to teach general academics in the secondary public schools.
Haddy Harrington Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship is to provide financial assistance for students who have demonstrated a passionate desire for advanced education in art or writing. Applicant must be a graduate of a Henderson County high school with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
Hans and Margo Nagel Scholarship
This scholarship provides assistance with education expenses for a citizen and resident of Henderson County who graduates from a high school in Henderson County. This scholarship is for someone who is doing things to prevent and break the cycle of desperate need and is to act as an incentive for the recipient to do something, primarily in using education, to pull his or her life together and make a better life for himself or herself and the next generation.
Helen F. Lindner Scholarship
The applicant must be male graduating senior from any high school located within the boundary of Henderson County. The successful male applicant will be a student who may not have excelled academically but who has shown promise academically and who indicates a willing spirit to work. The applicant should be someone who has shown diligence above average but who may not have academically achieved above average.
Helga Nielsen Scholarship
Preference is given to applicant(s) who have received a two-year degree from Blue Ridge Community College and plan to continue his or her education at a four-year accredited institution and/or be a graduating senior of any Henderson County High School. Applicant does not have to be a scholastically high achiever or deeply involved in school activities but rather one who strives to do his or her best and who demonstrates financial need.
Henderson County Educational Scholarship
This scholarship is to provide financial assistance to graduates of any Henderson County public high school.
Hendersonville Woman's Club Scholarship
The scholarship is to be awarded to a student who has financial need; is a Henderson County resident and graduate of a Henderson County school; plans to attend a four-year accredited school in North Carolina; is of good moral character; and has an acceptable grade point average.