SCHOLARSHIPS
APPLY NOW for 2020
Scholarship Forms (due by May 1st)
Teacher Grant Forms (due by May 1st)
It’s MCRTA scholarship time again!
May 1st is the deadline for all scholarship applications including the required letters of reference. Any Medina County graduate who is presently a college student majoring in education (must be a junior or senior Fall, 2020).
The application is now electronic and can be accessed through our website: medinacrta.weebly.com. Applications are to be filled out and submitted online. Contact Amy Panchumarti for further information at (330) 635-1106 or Amy4Ohio@Gmail.com.
A special tip of the spring top hat or bonnet to all our retirees who contribute to make these scholarships possible! Our generous donor categories are as follows:
$25 - Pewter
$50 - Copper
$100 - Bronze
$250 - Silver
$500 - Gold
$1000 - Platinum/Scholarship named in your honor
All donations are tax deductible.
2019 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS:
CONGRATULATIONS! Our 2019 MCRTA Scholarship winners were honored at the August 13th luncheon meeting. Both honorees received a check for $1000.
The winners are: Natalie Alfano & Zhane Scott
Natalie Alfano graduated from Brunswick High School in 2017. She was ranked 9th of over 600 students. She participated in “Read Across America” where she led an activity that promoted the love of reading to elementary students. Ms. Alfano volunteered at the Saint Ambrose Summer Festival and ran a booth. Natalie has been a Member of Alpha Lambda Delta honors society, was a Choose Ohio First Scholarship award winner of the mini-kit challenge at the Museum of Natural History, President's list award, and senatorial citation for Dean's list. She has become a Kent State University certified mathematics tutor and was qualified to tutor in all math areas through Calculus 3 including statistics. Ms. Alfono has worked in drop-in tutoring, scheduled tutoring, and has been a classroom assistant for a statistics professor.
Natalie grew up in a family of 5. With the high tuition costs of undergraduate and graduate studies, Natalie is responsible to pay for her own education. This preservice teacher has the right stuff! She wants her love of math and enthusiasm for teaching to shine through to her students. Natalie states, “My qualities of patience, knowledge, and a passion for learning as well as teaching will enable me to become a teacher that is not only a person who provides an education, but also provides students with a positive role model.”
Zhane Scott graduated in the upper 1/3 of her Medina High School graduating class. She chose to attend Ashland University and majored in Early Childhood Education. Zhane comes from a family of 10 where she has 7 siblings. Both her parents are hard-working. Ms. Scott is the third person in her family to go college. Zhane is on track to complete her degree with high honors. She is working a campus job while attending Ashland to offset the high cost of tuition. Zhane has volunteered at the Ashland dog shelter walking dogs that are typically cage-bound. She also worked with her church at a respite program assisting physically challenged children and their siblings, providing them with relaxed and positive
social evening experiences. Ms. Scott is a member of National Honor Society, is a high school graduate with an Honors Diploma, is inducted into college national honor society Alpha Lambda Delta, and is a Dean's list member the first two years of college. She enjoys volunteering for her sorority, Theta Phi Alpha, at Ashland University. She is on the Campus Activities Board where the committee plans free events for the campus. Zhane enjoys putting on these events for others and loves seeing her
fellow students enjoy themselves.
Ms. Scott plans to pursue a degree in Early Childhood Education at Ashland University. She would like to come back and give to Medina after graduation by working in one of her home town elementary schools. After a few years of working, she would like to go back to school and obtain her masters degree in education. Zhane feels, “(Patience) is very useful and important in the field of education because you have to get to know your students and what is going on in their lives at home. When a student knows that their teacher wants to build a relationship with them, they are more eager to come to school and learn.”
We are very proud of your accomplishments and hope this scholarship helps you.
Thanks to the members who contribute to make these scholarships possible.
 Zhane & Natalie
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Scholarship Contributions:
Scholarship 'cups' will continue to be available at our MCRTA meetings. This has been a wonderful way to add to our scholarship funds. Contributions can be made at any time. All funds raised now will benefit our 2020 winners. Your generosity is so appreciated.
This year we honored generous donors at the Scholarship luncheon in August.
Extra-generous donor categories are:
$25 - Pewter
$50 - Copper
$100 - Bronze
$250 - Silver
$500 - Gold
$1000 - Platinium/Scholarship named in your honor
All donations are tax deductible.
Make checks payable to MCRTA.
Send to:
Nancy McNeal
1044 Brimfield Drive
Medina, Ohio 44256
The search is under way each year for scholarship winners. Any Medina County School graduate is eligible. College students must be juniors or senior next fall and be majoring in Education. Contact Amy Panchumarti (Amy4Ohio@gmail.com) or check this website under Applications.
Education majors:
Scholarship Applications from the Medina County Retired Teachers are available and must be mailed in by May 1st of each year.
Requirements:
*Graduate of any Medina County high school
*Majoring in Education
*Will be a junior or senior in college
Inquires/replies: Medina County Retired Teachers Association (MCRTA)
Amy Panchumarti
330-635-1106
Amy4Ohio@gmail.com
SEE BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION. Be sure to include your email address and submit three signed recommendation letters by 5/1.
Scholarship Applications from the Medina County Retired Teachers are available and must be mailed in by May 1st of each year.
Requirements:
*Graduate of any Medina County high school
*Majoring in Education
*Will be a junior or senior in college
Inquires/replies: Medina County Retired Teachers Association (MCRTA)
Amy Panchumarti
330-635-1106
Amy4Ohio@gmail.com
SEE BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION. Be sure to include your email address and submit three signed recommendation letters by 5/1.
Teacher Grants
Teacher Grants are awarded to any active teachers currently teaching in Medina County schools. Applications can be downloaded on this website (or contact Lin Crane at greglincrane@roadrunner )and must be mailed in by May 1st of each year.
TEACHER GRANT WINNERS FOR 2019:
Receiving the 2019-2020:
The Medina County Retired Teacher's Association (MCRTA) is proud to announce that four active Medina County teachers will each be receiving a $200 Nancy M. Boomhower Memorial Active Teacher grant from our association. The grants will be used by teachers to pursue additional curriculum opportunities for their students in the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.
Nancy M. Boomhower was a Brunswick primary teacher for many years before her death from cancer in 2013. Nancy served our MCRTA in many capacities over the years including being our president. Nancy was the driving force behind developing our active teacher grant program. Now, in our fifth year MCRTA has provided 30 grants to active Medina County teachers. After thoughtful and careful review of the Boomhower Grant applications for the school year 2018-2019, we have chosen the following teachers to receive $200 each to help implement their great ideas:
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CONGRATULATIONS to all.
Our 50/50 raffle as well as generous donations help to fund these grants.
After thoughtful and careful review of the Boomhower Grant applications for the school year 2019-2020 the Grant Committee awarded these teachers $200.00 each to help implement their great ideas:
Committee members: Lin Crane, Chair, Lloyd Knudsen, Marilyn Buckloh, Dena Rising, and Jeanne Bystricky
Congratulations to these grant recipients. On behalf of the retired teachers of Medina County we salute your continuing passion to seek out greater opportunities for your students.
Nancy M Boomhower Active Teacher Grant Winners
for the 2019-2020 School Year
Ashley Hojczyk Brunwick Memorial Elementary... Toolbox for Learnin
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Sonya Infantino Black River Middle School... Soil Creation
Melissa Pamer Brunwick Hickory Ridge Elem... Honoring Via Published Memoirs
Lynette Miller Brunswick Crestview Elem... Reaching Little Readers Through WORDS
Lin Crane,
Grant Committee chairman
Thank you to all who contributed or will contribute to our grant fund. Our annual Nancy Boomhower Memorial Active Teacher Grant Program, which was established in 2013, will serve as a lasting legacy to Nancy's memory. Contributions can be made to our Teacher Grant fund anytime during the year.
A Thank You to everyone who served on the Grant Review Committee. Those members are: Marilyn Buckloh, Dena Rising, Lloyd Knudsen, Lin Crane(Chairman).
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Nancy Boomhower/Teacher Grants February 12, 1938 - October 29, 2013 Gifted educator, past President of Medina County Retired Teachers Association, District X Director, Eastern Area Vice President, and President Elect 2014 ORTA President Nancy's passion was to establish a grant for current teachers and to acquaint them with MCRTA. She remembered those days of spending her own money on classroom materials and projects. Nancy encouraged MCTRA to help 'pay it forward' to some of those teachers who personally provide extra, special opportunities for students in their classrooms that school budgets just won't allow. Her generous initial donation established this fund. MCRTA will continue to raise funds to make this grant available to all current teachers working in Medina County schools. Grant applications are available at Medina County Schools and on-line at this site. Mail completed applications by May 1st of each year. Mail to: Lin Crane 3523 Sleepy Hollow Road Brunswick, Ohio 44212 greglincrane@roadrunner.com for questions Download grant Application: |
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