Dear Friends:
It’s time to start the scholarship awards process for the 2025-26 academic year.
As a member of the New England Refreshment Services Association, your employees (and members of their immediate families) are eligible to apply for scholarship aid. I have included a PDF file of the Scholarship Application for their use, and a poster that you may use to publicize the program. Please feel free to print, email, or otherwise distribute as many copies as you need.
As in the past, scholarship applications must be returned to this office no later than May 31, 2025. They may be returned via US mail, or scanned & emailed in pdf format. We cannot accept “pictures” or JPG type file formats. The eligibility of each applicant must be verified by an officer of the sponsoring company and the sponsoring company must be a member in good standing of the New England Refreshment Services Association. The applicant must be an employee, or a member of the immediate family of a current employee. Please take the time to follow through with this requirement. We cannot accept an application without the employer’s signature. Also, please remind the applicants to include their latest, academic grade reports with their application.
Since its inception, the Scholarship Fund has awarded more than $978,450 in scholarship aid to the families of employees of our member companies. This program is totally funded by voluntary contributions from the member companies. Your generous support in the form of annual gifts, dues contributions, and participation at the NERSA annual meeting, all help to make this program work.
Thank you for your continuing support.
Sincerely,
ALLAN Z. GILBERT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Stephen Foley
Chairman
[email protected]
