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A
message to Illinois Chamber members:
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While we
so often focus on policy issues that directly affect business,
another key to Illinois’ future prosperity is education. I want to
encourage you to get involved in an excellent program that provides
scholarships for Illinois high school students and recognizes
business and community leadership: the third annual Lincolnland
Legends Essay and Scholarship Contest, organized by Illinois Dollars
for Scholars.
Please read the message below from Dick
Dystrup, Executive Director of Illinois Dollars for Scholars. Then,
I’d like you to take action:
- Local chambers: please ensure your high schools are aware of
and participating in the program, and pass this on to your members
who may be potential Lincolnland Legends in Business and Community
Leadership. Volunteer to help students identify business leaders
who would be good candidates as subjects of these essays and
potential Lincolnland Legend honorees.
- Chamber members: encourage your area high schools to
participate. Volunteer to help the school identify business
leaders to be the subjects of scholarship-worthy essays based on
the business and community leadership criteria.
- Pass this information on to high school juniors or seniors in
your family or community, and among your employees who may have
eligible children, and encourage them to apply for these very
desirable scholarships.
Help the Illinois Chamber help
Illinois Dollars for Scholars in publicizing this exciting
opportunity to encourage Illinois’ future leaders and recognize
today’s business leaders as Lincolnland Legends. Thanks.
Doug Whitley |
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 Dear Chamber Members,
Thank you for the
opportunity to inform you about our third annual Lincolnland Legends
Essay and Scholarship Contest. We hope you will help us spread the
word about our contest and encourage students to apply.
We
recently launched our Third Annual Lincolnland Legends Essay and
Scholarship Contest for the current school year. Application packets
have been distributed to every high school in Illinois. Up to 19
winners will be selected from among entries received – one from each
of Illinois’ Congressional districts. The winning essay from each
district will earn a $3,000 scholarship for its student author. The
top two essays from this finalist group will earn the writers
additional scholarship funds. This year, the writer of the state’s
top essay will receive an additional $7,000 award, and the second
place essay writer will receive an additional $2,000. A Gala
honoring all Legends nominees and their student writers will be held
April 5, 2008 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in
Springfield.
This year’s Lincolnland Legends category is
Business and Community Leadership. Any Illinois high school junior
or senior may write an essay about a business leader who is eligible
for this special recognition. Nominees must be a current or former
resident of the student’s congressional district in Illinois, and
still living. Essays will be judged on the demonstration of the
nominee’s connection to Illinois, the description of the nominee’s
accomplishment in business and community leadership, the description
of what the nominee has done to warrant admiration, and the overall
grammar, persuasiveness, and inspirational value of the essay.
We hope you will help us impact the lives of college-bound
students from across the state by spreading the word about the
program and helping students identify individuals to nominate. We
suggest that you contact your local high schools and offer to assist
students who are interested in applying for this scholarship. One
way you can help is identifying business leaders who may be
potential nominees students could write their essays about.
Nominations must be 750 to 1,000 words typed in essay form
and accompanied by the application form. Essays must be received by
December 3, 2007 via mail. Five copies of the application and essay
must be submitted. The application form and information is available
on our website, http://www.illinoisdollarsforscholars.org.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Dick Dystrup
Executive Director
1010 Runyan Drive, Lockport, IL 60441 - 888/255-9140 (toll
free) - 815/838-4717 (fax)
Email: ddystrup@aol.com - Web:
www.illinoisdollarsforscholars.org
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