CROWELL GIVEN SCHOLARSHIP

Christina Crowell, a 1996 graduate of Cobden, Ill., High School, received the Masonic educational assistance offered in Alexander, Pulaski, and Union counties. In October, she was presented with an additional $500 in matching funds from the Illinois Masonic Grand Lodge "Pennies for Children" program.

Pennies for Children is a program where each lodge has a job for brethren to throw their loose change in at meetings. The money collected is turned in to the Grand Lodge at the annual Grand Lodge Session. Any lodge that wishes to fund a charitable project for a child or group of children can apply for matching funds to supplement their project.

Each spring, the lodges of Alexander, Pulaski and Union counties, through the office of the Regional Superintendent of Schools, look for a graduating senior in their area that has talent to develop, but limited resources to being a college career. The funds contributed by the lodges in the three counties are used to assist that student in gaining entry to a school of higher learning.

The first qualification a student must have is that they cannot have received any scholarship before the award is made.