26 Fisher House Scholarships Awarded to Military Kids

26 sons and daughters of active, retired, or deceased service members are receiving $1,500 scholarships thanks to BATH FITTER and their EducationAd advertising through CBS EcoMedia. Each of the students are from the Philadelphia or Pittsburgh areas and will be getting vital funding for their payment of college tuition, books, lab fees and other related college expenses.

Today at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, leadership hosted one of the eight different celebration ceremonies for the recipients of the 2013 Fisher House scholarships made possible by BATH FITTERS.

Scholarship recipients Daniel Carney, Kathryn Foley, Elizabeth Hager, and Chantel Smith attended the ceremony at the Joint Base. In addition to the student recipients, their parents, teachers, high school principals and high school guidance counselors are also expected to attend the ceremonies.

Of the 26 Fisher House scholarships being funded by BATH FITTER, 18 are going to students from the Philadelphia area and eight are being awarded to students from the Pittsburgh area. In addition to the McGuire Air Force Base scholarship ceremony, other Fisher House scholarship recipients will be celebrated at ceremonies at C.E. Kelly SF Commissary, Carlisle Barracks, Tobyhanna Army Depot Commissary, Dover AFB Commissary, Lakehurst NAES Commissary, Aberdeen Proving Ground Commissary and Picatinny Aresenal Commissary.

The Scholarships for Military Children Program, now in its 13th year, was created in recognition of the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and to celebrate the role of the commissary in the military family community. Nearly 7,500 students, all sons or daughters of commissary patrons, have shared $11,326,000 in scholarship grants. Each year the Fisher House scholarship program provides over $1 million to military children.

“Fisher House Foundation, together with Scholarship Managers, are honored to administer the Scholarships for Military Children Program,” said Foundation vice president Jim Weiskopf. “The young men and women selected to receive these merit based scholarship grants are most deserving. They are truly the best of the best. They will be our nation’s future leaders.”