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| Faulkner Incoming Freshman Scholarship |
Rob Burns
Scholarship Chair
221 4th Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: (770) 313-2979
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Congratulations to Troy Messina, our 2009 William C. Faulkner Incoming Freshman Scholarship award winner!
Applications for the 2009 William Faulkner Incoming Freshman Scholarship are now closed.
The William Faulkner Scholarship Award is a scholarship given by the Georgia Phi chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Candidates for this scholarship award of $500 must be incoming male freshmen to Georgia Tech who display a variety of qualities, including the demeanor of a True Gentleman.
"The True Gentleman" is the creed of which all members of our fraternity strive to live by, and it guides our members to reach and exceed their true potential as scholars, athletes, leaders, and gentlemen. The candidate that best exemplifies the qualities of a True Gentleman through scholarship, service, leadership, and athletics will be the winner of the award.
While we strongly encourage applicants for the scholarship to come and meet our brothers during their first semester at Georgia Tech, a candidate does not have to join SAE in order to receive the award.
We will begin accepting applications immediately, until the beginning of the Fall 2009 semester. After the first few weeks of school the chapter will review the applications and announce a winner.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in Mississippi. He is most notably known for being a novelist and a short story writer, including such great works as The Sound and the Fury and "A Rose for Emily".
During World War I, because William was too short to join the US military but was such an ardent patriot, he moved to Canada to join the Royal Air Force so that he could still serve the allied forces. Following the war, he studied literature at the University of Mississippi. While there, he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1949 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote many more short stories and novels between then and his death in 1962. |
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