Scholarship Essay Contest
The California Mayflower Society awards three scholarships each year to qualified applicants: one $5000 scholarship, one $3,000 scholarship and one $2,000 scholarship. Download the 2021 Scholarship Announcement here:
ELIGIBILITY
A scholarship recipient must be a high school senior during the year he/she applies for the scholarship.
Scholarship applicants must show a lineage connection to the California Mayflower Society:
If you or one of your parents wish to join the California Mayflower Society, you should immediately begin work to prove your descent from a Mayflower passenger. This process takes several months and must be completed before an applicant can apply for the scholarship.
Information about the process of documenting your Mayflower ancestry is available from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants website. To begin your membership application, if outside of California, contact the historian for the Mayflower Society in your state of residence by emailing them (links to state historians). If inside California, contact the California Historian here to be directed to the appropriate Assistant Historian in your area.
Scholarship applicants must show a lineage connection to the California Mayflower Society:
- as a current member of the California Mayflower Society who has an adult California Mayflower Society membership number; or
- as the child, grandchild, great-grandchild, niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, great-grandniece or great-grandnephew of a living current member of the California Mayflower Society who has a California Mayflower Society membership number.
If you or one of your parents wish to join the California Mayflower Society, you should immediately begin work to prove your descent from a Mayflower passenger. This process takes several months and must be completed before an applicant can apply for the scholarship.
Information about the process of documenting your Mayflower ancestry is available from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants website. To begin your membership application, if outside of California, contact the historian for the Mayflower Society in your state of residence by emailing them (links to state historians). If inside California, contact the California Historian here to be directed to the appropriate Assistant Historian in your area.
Requirements
Applicants must submit:
1) a Scholarship Application Form, including a written component exploring their Mayflower heritage, 2) a copy of their high school transcript, 3&4) two letters of recommendation.
1) a Scholarship Application Form, including a written component exploring their Mayflower heritage, 2) a copy of their high school transcript, 3&4) two letters of recommendation.
To apply
Download and save both the 2021-2022 Scholarship Application Instructions and the 2021-2022 Scholarship Application Form. Everything you will need to prepare, format and submit your application is in these two documents.
deadline
All application materials must be received no later than Monday March 1 , 2021. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
For More Information
If you have questions about any aspect of the scholarship program please send an email to Scholarship Secretary, Larry Beston at larrybeston@sbcglobal.net
submitting scholarship applications
1) For the electronic submissions, please email: Scholarship Secretary, Larry Beston at: larrybeston@sbcglobal.net
2) For U.S. Mail submissions please send applications to:
Mr. Larry Beston
Scholarship Secretary
California Mayflower Society
57 Minarets Ave
Clovis, Ca 93611
2) For U.S. Mail submissions please send applications to:
Mr. Larry Beston
Scholarship Secretary
California Mayflower Society
57 Minarets Ave
Clovis, Ca 93611
