Walter Harrison Scholarship

Schol­ar­ship Fund Cri­te­ria:

1. The recipient’s pri­ma­ry res­i­dence must be the house­hold of an EMC mem­ber or EMC employ­ee. EMC mem­bers and employ­ees are also eli­gi­ble.

2. The recip­i­ent must be enrolled in an accred­it­ed pro­gram, either full-time or part-time.

3. The recip­i­ent must be an under­grad­u­ate stu­dent only.

4. The schol­ar­ship fund will be in the form of a grant pro­gram with funds being paid to the col­lege, uni­ver­si­ty or tech­ni­cal school.

5. A per­son may sub­mit an appli­ca­tion each year, but pre­vi­ous win­ners are not eli­gi­ble for a sec­ond schol­ar­ship.

6. The schol­ar­ship fund will pro­vide $1,000 for each schol­ar­ship winner’s edu­ca­tion­al expens­es. The num­ber of schol­ar­ships will depend on the fund earn­ings.

7. Schol­ar­ship use must com­mence with­in one year of date of issuance and be total­ly uti­lized with­in two years of the date of issuance. The school shall return any unused funds to the schol­ar­ship fund.

8. The schol­ar­ship may be used at any two-year or four-year accred­it­ed col­lege or uni­ver­si­ty in Geor­gia includ­ing tech­ni­cal schools.

9. A com­bi­na­tion of need and aca­d­e­m­ic abil­i­ty will be used in deter­min­ing schol­ar­ship fund win­ners.

10. Each EMC may sub­mit one appli­ca­tion for each one-time $1,000 that they have con­tributed to the fund to the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee for con­sid­er­a­tion in choos­ing the schol­ar­ship fund win­ners.

11. An exec­u­tive com­mit­tee will over­see the schol­ar­ship fund. This com­mit­tee will con­sist of the Chair­man of the Board of GEMC, the Vice-Chair­man of the Board of GEMC, the Chair­man of the Ser­vices Com­mit­tee, the Man­ag­er of Planters EMC, the Man­ag­er of Excel­sior EMC, and the Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of GEMC (ex offi­cio mem­ber).

12. Geor­gia South­ern Uni­ver­si­ty will admin­is­ter the schol­ar­ship fund.

13. Schol­ar­ship win­ners must noti­fy their EMC Wal­ter Har­ri­son Schol­ar­ship Coor­di­na­tor of their accep­tance of the award and the name of the school they plan to attend by June 1st or they will for­feit the schol­ar­ship.

The appli­ca­tion dead­line for 2025 has passed. We appre­ci­ate your inter­est.