Western Illinois Electrical Coop.

            Seven  academic scholarships to high school seniors through a memorial scholarship fund designed to financially assist deserving students in the “electric cooperative family.” In addition, a new eighth scholarship – to assist with costs in attending an electric lineworker school – will be offered for the first time.

            Seven scholarships of $1,250 each will be awarded in 2011 through the Thomas H. Moore Illinois Electric Cooperatives (IEC) Memorial Scholarship Program.  For information, rules and application for these seven scholarships, click HERE  Deadline for these is January 1, 2011. 

·        Four scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors who are the sons or daughters of an Illinois electric cooperative member receiving service from the cooperative.

·        A fifth scholarship, the Earl W. Struck Memorial Scholarship, will be awarded to a student who is the son or daughter of an Illinois electric cooperative employee.

·        The sixth and seventh scholarships are reserved for students enrolling full-time at a two-year Illinois community college who are the sons or daughters of Illinois electric cooperative members, employees or directors. 

            A new eighth annual scholarship, the “LaVern and Nola McEntire Lineworker’s Scholarship,” will be awarded for the first time in 2011. This $1,250 scholarship will help pay for costs to attend the lineworker’s school conducted by the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives in conjunction with Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, Ill. LaVern McEntire served as a lineman for McDonough Power Electric Cooperative from 1949 until 1991. He and his wife, Nola, helped to endow and establish the new scholarship to financially assist deserving individuals in becoming trained lineworkers. Relatives of co-op employees or directors are eligible for the lineworker’s scholarship, as are individuals who have served or are serving in the armed forces or National Guard.

            For information, rules and application for this lineworker’s scholarship, click HERE.  Deadline for this scholarship is April  30, 2011. 

         Please print out either scholarship and mail or fax to the WIEC office by the deadline indicated.