Scholarships

The Home and Family Living Department awards 15 different scholarships each academic year. Below is a list and description of each of the scholarships. To apply for any of these please fill out the scholarship application to the left or pick one up in the Home and Family Living Department in 2060 JFSB. Please return to Erica Germaine in the Home and Family Living Department in 2060 JFSB by April 13, 2007 no later than 5:00 pm.

Alice D. Greene and Asta J. Beyer

Awards from this scholarship shall be made available to LDS women in good standing entering their junior or senior year who have exhibited academic and professional promise. Such academic achievement shall include a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and must continue to maintain the 3.0 GPA or better for consideration of future awards from this fund. In addition, candidates for the award shall include a major in Family and Consumer Sciences Education, a demonstrated commitment to serving families, and a demonstrated personal integrity and commitment to the values which are supportive of family strengths. Awards shall also be made available to graduate students who are actively seeking advanced degrees and who are in need of financial assistance in order to continue their studies. Special consideration in each instance shall be given to need for assistance and desire for achievement.

Rosemary Borg Summers

The awards from this fund shall be made available to undergraduate female Family and Consumer Sciences Education majors in good standing entering their junior or senior year, and who exhibit academic and professional promise. Such academic achievements shall include a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.3. Candidates for this award must have a goal of receiving a teaching license, exhibit commitment to serving families, and demonstrate personal integrity and dedication to the values which strengthen families. One award shall be made to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and, a second award shall be granted to a non-member of said church. In case a qualified non-LDS individual does not apply for the award, the scholarship may be given to a second LDS student who meets the requirements as described above.

Camilla Eyring Kimball Graduate Scholarship

This scholarship will honor Camila Eyring Kimball as a role model for professional Home Economists throughout the world, and to acknowledge the leadership Sister Kimball has given to the advancement of educational goals and opportunities for women in all cultures including her emphasis on continuing education. The scholarship will also provide recognition for the contributions of Sister Kimball in providing understanding of world-wide sisterhood for women through recognition of cross-cultural common denominators.

The applicant must be a graduate student who is academically qualified to attend Brigham Young University and wishes to pursue studies in Home and Family Living in order to serve people in cross-cultural settings. Candidates should demonstrate a love of learning and a commitment to academic preparation for serving families in a cross-cultural setting. Candidates should also possess the qualities needed to serve in key educational leadership positions that will enhance the quality of family life in all nations.

Rosemary Choules

A scholarship for Home and Family Living majors in their senior year and when the endowment reaches a sufficient size to also provide scholarships for graduate candidates in Home and Family Living....The applicant will have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5 during the preceding two semesters, consideration will be given to the applicant’s attitude and desire to make a professional contribution to families through formal and informal educational settings, consideration will be given to the applicant’s concern for and love people– these qualities having been the hallmark of the life of Rosemary Phillips Choules.

Doris Ford Davis

To provide scholarship assistance to students majoring in the curriculums identifiable with the life of Doris Ford Davis. Specifically, those curriculums are clothing and textiles, Family and Consumer Sciences education, and food science and nutrition.

Given to a junior or senior in Family and Consumer Science Education every other year (shared with Food Science)... minimum GPA of 2.80. If given to the same individual the second year that individual must maintain a 3.25 GPA.”

Marion Pfund and Effie Warnick

Pfund requirements: freshman going into sophomore year in Family and Consumer Sciences; or a transfer student.

Warnick requirements: a Family and Consumer Sciences student exhibiting scholastic achievement, leadership ability; a promising student preparing to become a teacher; probability of making significant contributions to the field of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Sarah Bagley Shumway

The fund is to provide tuition, research, or creative project assistance once annually to a deserving Brigham Young University Home and Family Living student, one who has demonstrated financial need, a level of excellence in scholarship, commitment to the moral code of the university and dedication to the completion of a degree in the Home and Family Living program, and has achieved upper division status (junior or senior) at the time of the award.

John and Minnie Domgaard

Juniors and Seniors in Home and Family Living committed to excellence and willing to share generously with others.

Lucinda Brasher Wild

Awards shall be made available from this scholarship fund for undergraduate students in the program of Family and Consumer Sciences in the School of Family Life in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences. Awards shall be made available...to students who have evidenced academic merit and who demonstrate financial need. ...Those receiving awards shall be eligible for awards in more than one academic year.

Emma Kunzler Carter

Awards shall be made to a person pursuing a degree in the Home and Family Living Department. They must have shown evidence of scholastic ability by maintaining a grade point average of at least 3.0. Preference should be given to students who have demonstrated financial need. Those that receive awards shall be eligible for awards in more than one academic year.

Grow

This scholarship will be assigned to an undergraduate in Home and Family Living based upon basis of integrity and academic performance.

Juanita Hill

This scholarship is in memory of Juanita Ray Hill wife of Prof. E. Jeffrey Hill of the Home and Family Living department. The scholarship will be awarded to those who have children while enrolled in the university. The recipient must plan to be a full-time homemaker and strong financial needs.

Elizabeth T. Porter Memorial Scholarship

It will be awarded to an undergraduate student in the School of Family Life. The recipients will be selected based upon basis of integrity, academic performance, professional promise, and a desire and intention of pursuing graduate studies.

Department also gives the Hazel Noble Boyack award, and the Zina Card Brown award but these are not financial. The Boyack is a fine gift for the home given to the outstanding Home and Family Living graduating senior who displays womanly qualities and is professional, and the Brown award is a sewing machine.