SPY’s Community Newsletter
(2/2/24)
SPY’S Community Foundation
Scholarship Application Deadline Nears
March 15, 2024, is the deadline for applications to be in for the SPY’s Community Foundation sponsored scholarships. Each year awards are made from the Scholarship Fund to deserving graduating High School seniors.
The criteria for application is as follows:
· Applicant must be a resident of the Sunfield Area; (i.e.: lives within the boundaries of the old Sunfield Elementary School attendance area).
· Applicant must apply in writing on the forms provided by March 15th. of the year of graduation.
· Applicant must provide a high school transcript.
· Completed teacher recommendation forms must accompany a submitted application in order to be considered.
· Applicant must also provide a non-school / non-family member “outside” reference using the form provided. This must be returned directly to the SPY’s by the March 15th deadline.
· Applicant must have demonstrated some sort of community involvement.
· Applicant should be able to document leadership ability or qualities, and be a well-rounded individual.
· Home-schooled applicants are eligible, but must submit SAT or ACT scores, and at least three (3) letters of recommendation from people outside their immediate family.
· This is a one-time award.
· If a scholarship winner, you must be able to show proof of college registration to receive money.
· Scholarship recipients must claim their award by the end of the calendar year in which it was awarded, or automatically forfeit, unless, the President or Treasurer of the Foundation, due to acceptable unusual circumstances, grants a written waiver.
· The decision of the Scholarship Selection Committee is final and not subject to appeal.
Sunfield SPY's Community Foundation Trades
Scholarship / Award Applicant Criteria
· Applicant must be a resident of the Sunfield Area (i.e.: lives within the boundaries of the old Sunfield Elementary School Attendance Area).
· Applicant must apply in writing on the form provided by March 15th of the year of graduation.
· Applicant must provide a high school transcript.
· Home-school applicants are also eligible, but must submit SAT or ACT scores.
· This is a one-time award.
· If a scholarship winner, you must be able to show proof of college registration to receive money.
· If applicant is entering an apprentice program, a cash “Tool Allowance” award will be made upon presentation of documentation of at least six-months employment in an apprentice program.
· The decision of the Scholarship Selection Committee is final and is not subject to appeal.
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact John Fisher at 517-648-0969 or email at
Applications for either Scholarship / Award Program are available on-line at the SPY’s website at www.sunfieldareaspys.com., or through the Lakewood Guidance Department website.
If you know of a graduating Senior from the area, please encourage them to apply!
This year will mark the 38th year of the awarding of Scholarships. Thus far, over $300,000 has been awarded to 201 graduating seniors.
Parting Comments
· Deep Thought of the Week: Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
· Notable Quote: “To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling."---Barbara Walters
· That’s Puny Department: Did you happen to hear about the midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison became a small medium at large?
· Did You Know Section: On May 20, 1883, Krakatoa, a volcano on Rakata Island in Indonesia, erupted with a force never seen — or heard — on Earth. Some 1,300 miles away, residents of islands in the Bay of Bengal reported hearing a series of blasts “resembling those of artillery.” Even farther away, reports from islands in the western Indian Ocean recorded a “distant roar of heavy guns.” As the speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour, Krakatoa’s loud awakening took four hours to reach the distant island of Rodrigues (near Mauritius) roughly 3,000 miles away — and it still delivered sounds as loud as a gun blast.
At an estimated 310 decibels, the eruption of Krakatoa is the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. In fact, Krakatoa was so loud that for those in close proximity, the sound of the eruption wasn’t a sound at all. That’s because at 194 decibels, acoustic vibration transforms into a shock wave of a sonic boom, and the Krakatoa shock wave was so massive, it circled Earth four times before finally dissipating. For a full five days, weather stations around the world experienced spikes in pressure every 34 hours — approximately how long it takes for sound to circumnavigate the globe. The Krakatoa eruption was one of the most powerful in history, due to a buildup of pressure in the magma chamber. It delivered the equivalent force of a 200-megaton bomb — four times as powerful as the largest-ever thermonuclear explosion, Tsar Bomba, which produced the loudest human-made sound in history.
Notices
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