The Maryland Retired School Personnel Association Endowment Fund
provides scholarship monies for currently employed educational personnel
in the public schools of Maryland to become fully certified and qualified
teachers. The Fund was established in 1999 with a generous donation
to the Association by the late Irl and Ella Beall, longtime MRSPA members.
In the past eight years, contributions from MRSPA members and friends of the
Association have helped this fund grow.
The Association is committed to use only
interest and dividends from the fund to award annual scholarships.
Selection of the scholarship recipients is the sole responsibility of the
MRSPA Scholarship Committee. With the approval of the Board of
Directors, innovative community programs dealing with retiree issues and
initiated by the state or a local Education and Protective Services
committee may receive monies from the Endowment Fund.
As of May 2008, (22)
scholarships have been awarded. Each
year, the MRSPA Scholarship Committee strives to increase the number of
scholarships awarded, as well as, increasing the amount given.
MRSPA members and friends of the Association
are urged and encouraged to make yearly contributions to this Fund.
All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Please contact the MRSPA office for
additional information at mrspa@mrspa.org or 410-551-1517 or toll free 1-877-625-6782.
