Scholarships- Three different opportunities
The Orange County Colony of Mayflower Descendants 2024
Scholarship Competition Information
2024 Scholarship Information:
The Executive Board of the Orange County Colony of the California Society of Mayflower Descendants proudly announces the 2023/24 scholarship program for students attending college, undergraduate or graduate level students or graduating high school seniors, who are either a member or have a direct lineage connection or share bloodline (i.e., niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, cousin) to a member of the Orange County Colony Mayflower Descendants. The applicant or his/her family member must be an OC Colony member in good standing for at least one year as of the date of the application. There will be no restrictions on age (if meets eligibility requirements) prior winner status, or residence of the member or applicant.
Scholarships will be awarded as follows: $1,600 First Place, $1,200 Second Place, $700 Third Place and $250.00 Jim Blauer Award for 4th..
The applicant package must be complete and contain each of the following items:
• Scholarship Application - Download PDF
• Essay of 750 words or less (do not exceed)
• A letter of recommendation from the parent or grandparent whose direct lineage qualifies the student for competition.
• Submit in a PDF format.
The Executive Board of the Orange County Colony of the California Society of Mayflower Descendants proudly announces the 2023/24 scholarship program for students attending college, undergraduate or graduate level students or graduating high school seniors, who are either a member or have a direct lineage connection or share bloodline (i.e., niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, cousin) to a member of the Orange County Colony Mayflower Descendants. The applicant or his/her family member must be an OC Colony member in good standing for at least one year as of the date of the application. There will be no restrictions on age (if meets eligibility requirements) prior winner status, or residence of the member or applicant.
Scholarships will be awarded as follows: $1,600 First Place, $1,200 Second Place, $700 Third Place and $250.00 Jim Blauer Award for 4th..
The applicant package must be complete and contain each of the following items:
• Scholarship Application - Download PDF
• Essay of 750 words or less (do not exceed)
• A letter of recommendation from the parent or grandparent whose direct lineage qualifies the student for competition.
• Submit in a PDF format.
Applications are accepted with an accompanying essay on a particular topic chosen each year by the OC Colony Board. This topic is changed annually and announced no later than February 1st of each year.
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CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS, ORANGE COUNTY COLONY
2024 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION - DEADLINE TO APPLY: MARCH 1, 2024
The following criteria must be met for the 2024 Scholarship Contest application process to be
successful. The Scholarship will be awarded in April 2024 and the winners recognized at the April
2024 meeting as well as the November 2024 Compact Meeting. Scholarships will be awarded as
follows: $1,600 First Place, $1.200 Second Place, $700 Third Place, $250 Fourth Place.
● Applicant must be a college undergraduate, graduate student or a graduating high school
senior.
● Applicant must be a member, or have a direct lineage connection, or share a Mayflower
bloodline (i.e., child, grandchild, etc., niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, cousin) with
a member of the Orange County Colony Mayflower Descendants.
● There will be no restrictions on age (if meets eligibility requirements), prior winner status or
residence of the member or applicant.
● The applicant or his/her/their family sponsor must be an OC Colony member in good
standing for at least one year as of the date of the application.
Name of Applicant: _____________________________________________________________
Telephone Number/Email address: _________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
What is your lineage connection to the Orange County Colony? __________________________
Name, address, relationship, General Society Number & California Society Number:
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Instructions:
The applicant package (this page) must be complete and contain each of the following items:
1. Scholarship Application (this page)
2. A Mayflower essay no longer than 750 words addressing the following topic:
Using a little-known documented fact or event from any time in the life of one of your
Mayflower ancestors, tell the rest of the story of this fact or event in the voice of your
ancestor, fictionally augmenting, but not contradicting the documented historical record.
3. A letter of recommendation from the parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle whose lineage qualifies the
for the competition.
4. The application may be scanned and sent via email to [email protected]
Essays will be evaluated for content, organization, style, references (publications and internet) and
grammar. All entries and sources must be typewritten, and sources cited in appropriate bibliographic style.
Factoids, where presented, are to be cited in the text at the end of the sentence where presented. For
example: Small beer was consumed by sailors on long voyages (Blakely, 2017). A more complete
description of the source is then given in the Reference Section: Blakely, J. (2017). Beer on Board in the
age of Sail. Unbound Smithsonian,
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/#.Y1P6EnbMKUk
The application packet due date is March 1, 2024. Students will be notified and award money
distributed in April 2024. The winners will be recognized at the Annual Membership Meeting, April
2024, as well as on the Mayflower Compact Day, November 2024.
Email application and essay with letter of recommendation to: [email protected]
The essay must be 750 words or less.
Essays will be evaluated for content, organization, style, references (publications & internet), and grammar. All entries must be typewritten, and sources (cited in appropriate bibliographic style).
The application packet due date is March 1, 2024. Students will be notified and award money distributed in April 2023. The winners will be recognized at the Annual Membership Meeting, April 2024, as well as on the Mayflower Compact Day, November 2023.
Email essay with letter of recommendation in PDF format to:
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CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS, ORANGE COUNTY COLONY
2024 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION - DEADLINE TO APPLY: MARCH 1, 2024
The following criteria must be met for the 2024 Scholarship Contest application process to be
successful. The Scholarship will be awarded in April 2024 and the winners recognized at the April
2024 meeting as well as the November 2024 Compact Meeting. Scholarships will be awarded as
follows: $1,600 First Place, $1.200 Second Place, $700 Third Place, $250 Fourth Place.
● Applicant must be a college undergraduate, graduate student or a graduating high school
senior.
● Applicant must be a member, or have a direct lineage connection, or share a Mayflower
bloodline (i.e., child, grandchild, etc., niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, cousin) with
a member of the Orange County Colony Mayflower Descendants.
● There will be no restrictions on age (if meets eligibility requirements), prior winner status or
residence of the member or applicant.
● The applicant or his/her/their family sponsor must be an OC Colony member in good
standing for at least one year as of the date of the application.
Name of Applicant: _____________________________________________________________
Telephone Number/Email address: _________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
What is your lineage connection to the Orange County Colony? __________________________
Name, address, relationship, General Society Number & California Society Number:
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Instructions:
The applicant package (this page) must be complete and contain each of the following items:
1. Scholarship Application (this page)
2. A Mayflower essay no longer than 750 words addressing the following topic:
Using a little-known documented fact or event from any time in the life of one of your
Mayflower ancestors, tell the rest of the story of this fact or event in the voice of your
ancestor, fictionally augmenting, but not contradicting the documented historical record.
3. A letter of recommendation from the parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle whose lineage qualifies the
for the competition.
4. The application may be scanned and sent via email to [email protected]
Essays will be evaluated for content, organization, style, references (publications and internet) and
grammar. All entries and sources must be typewritten, and sources cited in appropriate bibliographic style.
Factoids, where presented, are to be cited in the text at the end of the sentence where presented. For
example: Small beer was consumed by sailors on long voyages (Blakely, 2017). A more complete
description of the source is then given in the Reference Section: Blakely, J. (2017). Beer on Board in the
age of Sail. Unbound Smithsonian,
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/#.Y1P6EnbMKUk
The application packet due date is March 1, 2024. Students will be notified and award money
distributed in April 2024. The winners will be recognized at the Annual Membership Meeting, April
2024, as well as on the Mayflower Compact Day, November 2024.
Email application and essay with letter of recommendation to: [email protected]
The essay must be 750 words or less.
Essays will be evaluated for content, organization, style, references (publications & internet), and grammar. All entries must be typewritten, and sources (cited in appropriate bibliographic style).
The application packet due date is March 1, 2024. Students will be notified and award money distributed in April 2023. The winners will be recognized at the Annual Membership Meeting, April 2024, as well as on the Mayflower Compact Day, November 2023.
Email essay with letter of recommendation in PDF format to:
The California State Society of Mayflower Descendants 2023
Scholarship Competition Information:
The California Mayflower Society awards three scholarships each year to qualified applicants: one $5,500 scholarship, one $3,500 scholarship, one $2,500 scholarship and one $1,000 scholarship. This is a statewide competition, open to any qualified student applicant from any colony within the State of California. Write a letter from one of your Mayflower ancestors to their family in England or Holland. Describe the contribu-tions of the Mayflower women in the colony.
Personal essay (not to exceed 500 words)
Two letters of
Recommendation:
Academic & Character
The due date for the 2023 applications to be submitted is March 1, 2024.
For more information and to obtain the application, please go to the Scholarship Page on the California Society website. For specific information or questions, Scholarship Secretary at: [email protected]
Personal essay (not to exceed 500 words)
Two letters of
Recommendation:
Academic & Character
The due date for the 2023 applications to be submitted is March 1, 2024.
For more information and to obtain the application, please go to the Scholarship Page on the California Society website. For specific information or questions, Scholarship Secretary at: [email protected]
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2024
Scholarship Competition Information:
Now Accepting Applications: Deadline for the 2024 Scholarship Program is March 1st, 2024
There are 4 Scholarships offered by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants each year. Scholarships will be awarded as follows:
$6,000 First Place, $5,000 Second Place and $4,000 Third Place as well as a $3,000 Mary Chilton Winslow Scholarship to a graduating high school senior who is a Mayflower descendant and will be attending a four-year college or university or two-year community college.
This is a national competition open to any qualified student applicant from any state or colony.
The due date for the 2024 applications to be submitted is March 1, 2024. Please visit the General Society's Scholarship page for more details.
If any documentation needs to be submitted to GSMD to obtain a current GSMD membership number, applicants should begin work as early as possible with the Mayflower Historian in their state of residence to complete this process.
You will be required to list your Mayflower Ancestor(s) from the ship.
For more information and to obtain the application and qualifications a parent or grandparent sponsoring a student should retrieve the required forms from TheMayflowerSociety.org members only section. Login is required to acquire the application forms.
You may also send any questions or inquiries via email [email protected]
There are 4 Scholarships offered by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants each year. Scholarships will be awarded as follows:
$6,000 First Place, $5,000 Second Place and $4,000 Third Place as well as a $3,000 Mary Chilton Winslow Scholarship to a graduating high school senior who is a Mayflower descendant and will be attending a four-year college or university or two-year community college.
This is a national competition open to any qualified student applicant from any state or colony.
The due date for the 2024 applications to be submitted is March 1, 2024. Please visit the General Society's Scholarship page for more details.
If any documentation needs to be submitted to GSMD to obtain a current GSMD membership number, applicants should begin work as early as possible with the Mayflower Historian in their state of residence to complete this process.
You will be required to list your Mayflower Ancestor(s) from the ship.
For more information and to obtain the application and qualifications a parent or grandparent sponsoring a student should retrieve the required forms from TheMayflowerSociety.org members only section. Login is required to acquire the application forms.
You may also send any questions or inquiries via email [email protected]
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