Purpose: To provide secondary school graduates scholarship award(s) for the purpose of continuing education in communications electronic or related fields.

Award(s) of interest from the scholarship fund shall be made to the selected candidate(s) each year upon the recommendation of the scholarship committee. The number of awards and the amounts shall be decided by the committee each year based upon interest earned. The board of directors shall disburse the funds for the award(s) at the start of the academic year to the school of the candidate(s). The treasurer shall notify the committee by February 1st as to the amount of monies available to be awarded.

It shall be the scholarship committees responsibility to notify and send applications to all secondary schools in the towns represented by the membership by March 1st with returns by April 15th.

Applications shall be considered confidential material and only members of the scholarship committee may review them.

Applicants Requirements:

Must be enrolled in an accredited institution beyond high school

Transcripts should be attached

Preference to students of electronics or related fields

Open to all regardless of race, religion, sex or national origin. Must be a U.S. citizen.

Each member of the scholarship committee shall review the applications and select three candidates for the award(s) ranking them in numerical order #1-3. The candidate(s) receiving the highest total shall be awarded the scholarship(s). If no (one) candidate receives more points then selected those chosen with the highest totals will be reviewed by the committee and ranked again. If no (one) candidate is selected then the president as ex-officio member shall cast the deciding ballot after reviewing the applications of those selected by the committee and receiving the highest totals.

Upon review of the applicants if two candidates are ranked equal and one of which is a member of MARC or their family  then preference shall go to that person.

No member of the committee shall be allowed to vote on an application of their immediate family, relatives, employee or employer.

Completed applications may be forwarded to the Scholarship Committee at:

• Application in MS Word format

Scholarship awards shall be of two types: perpetual or expendable.

Perpetual scholarships shall award the interest/dividends gained from the investments each year, the scholarship(s) is(are) funded by bequests of individuals or through funds raised by MARC Inc.
Expendable scholarships shall award the total sum received from the sponsor where the intent is to fund a short term scholarship or where the monies received would not generate enough income to warrant multiple years of awards.

Monies raised or donated to MARC shall first fund The Frank Darmofalski Scholarship unless otherwise designated by the donor.

All monies received/raised by the scholarship committee shall be deposited into the treasury. The scholarship committee shall recommend to the board of directors the investments in which to place the monies received for the scholarship fund.

In the event MARC Inc. shall be dissolved all monies in the scholarship fund shall be given to the ARRL scholarship program for perpetuation of the scholarship program