The ROA Scholarship is a recurring $500 scholarship. Eligibility and application information are below. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is 10 April 2008. Current cadets who have any questions should feel free to contact a cadre member or LTC(R) Pendleton.
From: Pendleton, Henry D CTR USA [mailto:Henry.David.Pendleton@us.army.mil]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:15 AM
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Subject: Reserve Officers Association (ROA) Scholarships (UNCLASSIFIED)
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Army ROTC ROOs, AGR Officers, and/or Professors of Military Science:
I am the Chairman of the Reilly Scholarship Committee for the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) and want you to be aware of the scholarship opportunities that are possibly available to your ROTC Cadets. These scholarships would be in addition to any other scholarship(s) that the Cadets are already receiving. Each scholarship is worth $500 per academic year and is renewable up to four times.
There are two types of scholarships, one for undergraduate students and another for graduate students. I will not go into details about either program but want to give you some parameters right up front for them. These are academic scholarships and are based on merit not need. The scholarship can be used for anything related to college from tuition to room and board. Those students that receive the scholarships are of very high quality. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is 10 April 2008.
The graduate scholarships are only for ROA members. If you have any Cadet/former Cadet who is on an educational delay, it is most likely that they will meet the minimum criteria to apply for the scholarship as long as they become an ROA member. For Cadets that will be commissioned in May/June 2008 and will go into an educational delay status for the 2008-2009 school year, the Cadets could apply for the scholarship as an ROA Officer Candidate Member ($4 annual membership fee). If selected for the scholarship, the money would not be released to the student was actually commissioned and became a full ROA member (free one-year membership for any Officer commissioned in the last year). Thus, the cost for a Cadet receiving an educational delay to apply for an ROA scholarship would be the $4.
For the undergraduate scholarship (there are three different applications based on where the student is currently in their undergraduate education program), the student must be a child or grandchild of an ROA member. Students who have parents or grandparents that can join ROA but are not participating in ROTC can still apply for the scholarship. ROTC Cadets that do not have a parent or grandparent that was an Officer cannot apply. If the student has a parent/grandparent that qualifies for ROA, that Officer/retired Officer/former Officer would have to join ROA in order to sponsor their child/grandchild for the scholarship.
Regular ROA annual memberships are $40 or less per year. To join ROA, a person must hold/have held a commission (active or reserve) in one of the seven uniformed services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, NOAA) in good standing. The person does not have to have retired from the military but could have served a short period of time in the military (i.e, Korean War) as an Officer. As long as the individual received a commission from one of the seven uniformed services, they are eligible to belong to ROA.
The website to join ROA and to find out about the scholarship program is www.roa.org. If you or someone else has difficulty finding the applications on the website or have any questions about the scholarship program or ROA, please feel free to contact me. As a former ROO for four years at the Orleans Battalion, I know that you have too much to do and not enough time to do it in; but wanted to let you know about our scholarships in case some of your Cadets could use the additional money to assist them in paying for their college education.
If you are no longer serving in an ROTC position or received duplicate copies of this email (I am emailing it to both AKO and school email addresses), I apologize in advance.
V/R
H. David Pendleton
LTC, USAR-AGR (Retired)
Chair, Reilly Scholarship Committee
Reserve Officers Association
Work Email: Henry.David.Pendleton@us.army.mil
Work Phone: 913-684-9448
