Scholarships
Each year JMA presents a promising young cousin a scholarship of $1000.
Qualifications for application:
- Must be between ages of 16 and 21 years old
- Attending college or trade school for the 2024-2025 school year
- Be a member of a dues paying household
- Complete and submit the application by June 1
If your household’s dues are not current, please click here to pay dues.
Applicants must submit a photo of themselves, an essay, and an application. These items can be submitted online. Tips and expectations for the essay can be downloaded here.
Meet our previous scholarship winners...
2020 scholarship winner Olivia Card (42626441)
Olivia’s essay discusses the similarities she has discovered between herself and her great grandmother.
2022 scholarship winner Heidi Nydam (471412111).
Heidi attends Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and did a great job comparing the course of her great-grandmother’s life, Ruth Elizabeth More Nydam (471412), in the early twentieth century to her own, focusing both on details of their respective experiences and their hopeful and optimis-tic outlook for the future and interest in bettering those around them. Heidi’s essay was notable for her interest not only in comparing differences in the worlds around her and ,,,
2023 scholarship winner Alaina Grey (51371.11.251)
Alaina’s essay discusses the hardships of her great grandmother’s life, and triumphs:
Kathleen Alice Sperbeck McIntyre (JMA#51371.11) spent nine years in a hospital. She was born November 4, 1920, and welcomed as the eleventh child out of thirteen. Her mother left them sometime at a young age, and her father died from tuberculosis when she was only four….
2017 Scholarship winner Jacob Harry Robinson (7751252). He attended SUNY Delhi, majoring in Recreation and Sports Facility Management. He received an internship as a student assistant coach for the SUNY Delhi softball team. He attended Hudson Valley Community College where he made the President’s list in his first semester.