The North Carolina Letter Carrier

                                                                                                           Eligibility Criteria

•  The applicant must be a son, daughter or legally adopted child of a letter carrier NALC member —active, retired or deceased. Stepchildren and grandchildren are eligible if they live with the letter carrier in a regular parent-child relationship.

• Applicant’s parent must be a member in good standing of NALC for at least one year prior to making application.
• Applicant must be a high school senior when making application and must submit the form provided below, signed by the NALC member and an officer of the member’s NALC branch. This form must be received by the Scholarship Committee by March 31, 2017.

Requirements

• All applicants must take the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) in either their junior or senior year. A copy of the official scores from the administering organization must be received by the committee by midnight, May 1, 2017 (Computer-generated printouts of test scores will not be accepted.)
• All biographical questionnaires and secondary school reports must be received by the committee by midnight, May 1, 2017.

Regulations

• Scholarship is to be used toward pursuing undergraduate degree at an accredited college of recipient’s choice.
• Winners may accept other college scholarship assistance in addition to the Wood-Haralson award.
• Any change of schools or course study must be done only with the permission of the Scholarship Committee.
• If winner suffers certified serious illness, scholarship will be held in abeyance for not more than one year.
• If unusual conditions are going to require an interruption in schooling, recipient must state reason(s) in writing to the Scholarship Committee and request that the scholarship be held in abeyance. Request(s) will be reviewed by the Committee and a decision rendered.
• If the NALC member is suspended by his/her local NALC branch or enters supervision, scholarship will be cancelled.

Terms of Awards

• The official scholarship judges will award two $1,000 scholarships to two recipients each year. Winners are judged on the basis of secondary school records, personal qualifications and test scores. Decisions of the judges will be final.
• Award money is to be used for required college fees, including room and board and transportation fees.