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Scholarships
- Emma Louise Warfield Memorial Fund |
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2007 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION |
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Festival Scholarship Funds accrue from specific bequests and gifts to the Circle of Support. About Emma Louise Warfield Emma helped found the Wallingford Community Arts Center and taught puppetry classes for thirty years to both children and adults. In addition, she also taught at the Philadelphia Junto and the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy. She was a charter member of Puppeteers of America, UNIMA-USA, and founder of Quaker Village Puppeteers, the Philadelphia area puppetry guild. She served as the Therapy Consultant for Puppeteers of America for over 20 years. Emma attended every national festival from 1937 to 1987, all of her region's Festivals and many UNIMA festivals. This scholarship is to honor Emma Louise Warfield and her contributions to puppetry. |
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The Emma Louise Warfield Memorial Scholarship was established to enable individuals to attend a National Festival who lack the financial means to do so otherwise. Puppeteers, puppet makers, and puppetry students 22 years old and older may apply. All applicants must be members of the Puppeteers of America, Inc. Phone 1-888-568-6235 or e-mail E-Mail Address for membership application and/or information. The Scholarship will cover registration for the National Festival
of the Puppeteers of America to be held July
17-22, 2007 at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Travel, room, and board must be provided by the recipient. Info
at www.puppetrampage2007.org PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING: (1) A completed Scholarship application form. Please do not exceed space provided for your answers, and please type or print legibly. NO E-MAILED APPLICATIONS, PLEASE--we need your signature! (2) Two or three letters of recommendation. At least one must be from a Puppeteers of America member. The letters of recommendation should be sent directly from the reference to Aretta Baumgartner at the address below. NO E-MAILED LETTERS, PLEASE--a signature is needed! (3) Pictures, promotional materials, or publicity of your puppetry work. If you wish to have the materials returned to you, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. NO VIDEOS, PLEASE--we cannot duplicate them. Note: Due to the expense of color copies, only one color copy will be forwarded to each member of the Scholarship Selection Committee. If you send more than one color print, please indicate which one you would like to have sent out to the Committee or provide enough copies (5) for each Committee member. *Recipients will be asked to write a brief paper detailing their Festival experience for possible publication *No P. of A. Trustees, members of the Education committees, or members of the Scholarship Committee will review all applications in February/March 2007. All applicants will be notified of the Committee's decisions around April 1, 2007--all decisions of the Committee are final.
Send completed application and support materials
to: ALL APPLICATIONS AND SUPPORT MATERIALS (INCLUDING LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION) MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 1, 2007. NO EXCEPTIONS! CLICK HERE FOR THE 2007 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION The Scholarship forms are available in Adobe PDF format. Need Adobe Reader? Click here!
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