Kettering Education Foundation - Class of 1950 Scholarship

Kettering Education Foundation Class of 1950 Scholarship was established in 2018 to provide financial assistance to graduating seniors from Kettering Fairmont High School. This scholarship is awarded by the Fairmont Class of '50. They were 72 boys and 72 girls who graduated from Fairmont High School at the NCR Auditorium in June of 1950. Coming from Van Buren Township's Dorothy Lane, Greenmont, Pasadena and Southern Hills grade schools, they worked, studied and played together and formed close-knit friendships at their beloved high school on Far Hills Avenue. Highlights for them as seniors include winning the trophy for football in the Miami Valley League, the play Life with Father, the operetta Pirates of Penzance and the irreverent Senior Assembly. Among their superb teachers were Chet Roush, Clark Haines, Miss Marshall, Miss Kennedy, Vince Arnold, Leah Funck and Howard Flatter. As adults, members of the Class of '50 became active citizens in Dayton and in cities around the nation, providing financial, health, manufacturing and educational services and proudly serving in all branches of the military. The bond of friendship created from high school days continues until the present day within the Class of '50. With the intention of gratefully paying forward the educational gift that was theirs to enjoy, at the class reunion in 2008 they voted to support the present students of Fairmont with a scholarship in memory of those in their class now departed. They are proud to be the first graduating class of Fairmont to offer a scholarship.

Applicants must:

• be a graduating senior of Kettering Fairmont High School,
• be accepted to and planning to attend a four-year college or university,
• have a minimum 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale,
• have a minimum 28 ACT score or minimum 1310 SAT score,
• demonstrate involvement in extra-curricular activities in school, church or the community, and
• demonstrate financial need.

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