March 2024
Our Mission:
To provide scholarships for the youth of
South Whidbey Island and to maintain a community meeting hall.
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What's happening at BISC ?
To the BISC membership,
The Scholarship Committee has suggested several changes to our current Supplement Letter that goes to each scholarship candidate and to the Scholarship Rubric that is used as a metric for rating the candidates. The Scholarship Committee, headed by Susan Geveart, has worked hard to propose a process of selecting a candidate that is more streamlined with less ambiguity. The board has reviewed those suggestions and feels that they are sound and desirable. We would like the membership to review the changes so we can have a discussion and vote at our next potluck, Friday 10 December 2021.
Thank you,
The BISC Board.
Dear Members,
Last year the scholarship committee had problems determining what our goal was in picking the scholarship recipient. This was because the way the rubric panned out, need was not emphasized enough and grades and community service were over-emphasized. Taking the mission as expressed by Tom Vos: "our objective should emphasize giving assistance to one who has worked hard and needs the financial support to continue his/her education" as our central theme, we changed several things on both the rubric and the supplement. As we were doing this we considered several other issues.
1. that we were getting incomplete applications.
2. that we are not receiving applications from students going to trade/tech schools
3. that most of the students had chosen the most expensive out-of-state schools
4. that a student truly in need would probably not have a lot of extracurricular or community service hours, but would likely have a lot of work hours.
5. that quantifying the boxes between extremes on the rubric often made a choice of box impossible.
We tried to address all the issues and are pleased with the result.
Thanks,
Susan Gevaert Scholarship committee chair.
Our Mission:
To provide scholarships for the youth of
South Whidbey Island and to maintain a community meeting hall.
Help send a South Whidbey student to college or trade school
Donate Now!
Some Memories From The Past
Fun at the Fifties Sock Hop
Great fun was had by all at the BISC February Social Meeting and Fifties Sock Hop.
A big thank you goes out to Jill Prater and Debbie Eimers for hosting the February meeting and BISC's first Sock Hop.
Jill expressed her idea to make this an annual event for the February Meetings. "Sounds good to me."
2021 Officers and Board Members Installed
At the January 2021 Annual Meeting the newly elected officers and Board members were installed.
Pictured is the 2017 President, Cathe Mueller, passing the gavel to the new "Boss" David Hiestand. David remains the BISC "Boss".
The 2021 Officers and Board of Director are:
President.....David Hiestand
Vice President....Alice Thull
Secretary.....Sandy Nonhof
Treasurer......Tom Vos
Members at Large:
Bob Spitzer
John Gevaert
Ed Meador
BISC Scholarship News
Valedictorian Amara Garibyan was awarded seven different scholarships on senior awards night June 7th.
Scholarships from South Whidbey donors were presented to the 2016 graduates of South Whidbey High School at a senior awards night June 7. Donors selected their recipients based on the applicant's general merit, financial need, talent or demonstration of personal character.
Madeline Barker: AAAUW Dale M. Fischer Memorial Art Scholarship, $600; Arise Charitable Trust Scholarship Grant, $2,500; Baby Island Saratoga Club 4-Year College/University Scholarship, $1,000
(Excerpt From The South Whidbey Record)
BISC Wins Award
Keeping with the spirit of the season, BISC members entered the annual Langley tree decorating contest.
Fun was had by all as we decorated to the theme of "Christmas by the Sea."
BISC is proud to announce that we won the the award for "Best Theme." That's a few more dollars that will go toward our scholarship fund.
