Scholarship Programs

The Radio Club of America takes great pride in what continues to be one the finest and most successful scholarship programs in the electronics industry.

As stated in the the Club's constitution, the Club shall "provide a scholarship fund for needy and worthy students for the study of radio communications."

For the fiscal year ending 16 November 2011, the following organizations were granted scholarship awards:

Montclair State University (a) - $3,000
Fairleigh Dickinson University - $2,000
Virginia Tech - $2,000
Capital College - $2,000
Cooper Union - $1,000
Polytechnic University - $2,000
University of Cincinnati (b) - $1,000
F.A.R. Scholarships (c ) - $3,000
Steven Institute of Technology - $2,000
Metropolitan State College of Denver - $1,000
University of Texas – Austin - $1,000

(a) Montclair State University maintains the Allen B.Dumont Television Center.
(b) This grant is matched by Captain Finch's daughter, Mrs. Eloise Tholen as well as Ford Motor Company
(c ) This grant is for 3 grant to engineering student selected by the committee. 

Here is a list of the different Scholarship Funds and how they originated:
Each of these organizations have proceedures in place to award 100% of the Club's grants to specific college students in need of tuition assistance.
The scholarship funds were started in the early 80's by Captain Bill Finch (USN). He put in a lump sum and the Finch Grant-In-Aid fund was created.
The Goldwater Fund was established in honor of Barry Goldwater while he was still alive. Tthe Meyerson Fund was established in honor of Lou Meyerson. The Poppele Fund was established in memory of Jack Poppele by the Poppele family; The Link fund was established in memory of Fred Link and the Meyer fund was established in honor of Stuart Meyer. The Biggs Fund was established by his widow in memory of member.Fellow Biggs. The Grebe fund was started by Alfred Grebe II in memory of his father. The Gunther fund was started by Robert Gunther for Frank Gunther.
The Buller Fund was established in 2006 by Eileen Buller in memory of her husband, Patrick Buller.
The Somers Fund was established by Richard Somers for his devotion to the Club.

If you would liike to establish a scholarship fund, either in memory or someone or in honor of someone, please contact me. I would be happy to work with you on this.
Each of these organizations have proceedures in place to award 100% of the Club's grants to specific college students in need of tuition assistance.

The Radio Club Scholarship Commitee is chaired by John E. Dettra, Jr. (F), WB4NBF and can be contacted at jdet1@verizon.net.