The John G. Williams Scholarship Foundation was founded to provide financial assistance to deserving Pennsylvania residents for their pursuit of college, post-graduate, and/or professional educational opportunities, in courses and at educational institutions that they select and that are acceptable to the Board of Trustees. The Foundation and its financial assistance shall be administered and provided without regard to race, religion, age, creed, or ancestry. Neither the Foundation nor any member of the Board of Trustees, nor their respective spouses, lineal descendants, or spouses of lineal descendants, shall be eligible to receive any financial assistance.
At this time financial assistance is provided by the Foundation on the basis of scholarship loans. Low-interest scholarship loans are preferred because they instill financial responsibility in the recipient while at the same time recycling the funds for other worthy students.
Recipients of financial assistance from the Foundation shall be encouraged to recognize their responsibility as citizens and encouraged to perform services of a civic and humanitarian nature. However, in providing financial assistance, the Foundation shall give preference in consideration and selection to those worthy persons who, or whose families, have insufficient finances or resources to pay the costs of higher education. The Foundation desires to provide financial assistance for promising persons who lack the resources to pursue higher education.
The Foundation shall continue in perpetuity.
John G. Williams is retired from the law firm of Shumaker Williams, P.C., with offices in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. For more than 30 years, he was Chairman of the Board of The American Group Companies, which has been engaged in the conception, development, design, construction, operation and management of commercial, industrial, and residential properties in the Northeastern United States. Prior professional and business experiences include teaching in the Department of Economics, Dickinson College, and at The Dickinson School of Law, Assistant to the Comptroller of Carlisle Tire and Rubber Company, and serving on the staff of Price Waterhouse & Co. in New York City. Other interests include breeder of purebred beef cattle, feeder cattle in Texas, and instrument rated multi-engine pilot. He has been active in a variety of community and civic organizations, including the Tri-County United Way, the Boy Scouts of America, the Executive Board of the Keystone Area Council for the Boy Scouts of America, and organizations devoted to the environment and natural resources. He was honorably discharged from the United States Navy and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard and, in 1985, was honored by the Dickinson School of Law as its Distinguished Alumnus. He was honored again by The Dickinson School of Law in1997 with the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was an organizer of Commonwealth State Bank, Newton, Pennsylvania, and First Capitol Bank, York, Pennsylvania.
Applications for the John G. Williams Scholarship Foundation may be secured online or by writing to the John G. Williams Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 1229, Camp Hill, PA 17001-1229.
Applicants will be notified by the Foundation in writing by mid August if they receive an award.
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