Kennebec County Scholarships
Brother Thomas Bezanson Scholarship Fund
The Brother Thomas Bezanson Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to students who have been residents of Rome for at least two years prior to graduating from high school and who rank in the top half of their class.
Contact: Messalonskee High School guidance office
Challenger Memorial Fund
The Challenger Memorial Scholarship Fund provides renewable scholarship resources for exceptionally talented public elementary school graduates who reside in Maine, are in need of financial assistance, and are entering Gould Academy or Kents Hill School as boarding students (either full-time or five-day).
Contact: Gould Academy and Kents Hill School
Esther Dachslager Scholarship Fund
The Dachslager Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to a graduating senior at Cony High School who is pursuing a degree in education at the college level.
Contact: Cony High School guidance office
Ethel J. Viles Scholarship Fund
The Ethel J. Viles Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to a graduating female student at Cony High School who plans to attend a Maine college or university. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of character and academic achievement.
Contact: Cony High School guidance office
Henry A. and Barbara J. McDermott Scholarship Fund
The Henry A. and Barbara J. McDermott Scholarship Fund provides scholarship assistance to Gardiner Area High School students who have been active in the music program at Gardiner Area High School and who intend to continue their involvement with music at the post-secondary level.
Contact: Gardiner Area High School guidance office
Howard T. Clark Hall-Dale School Scholarship Fund
This scholarship was established to provide scholarship assistance based upon academic attainment, character and financial need to graduates of Hall-Dale High School in Hallowell.
Contact: Hall-Dale High School guidance office
Kennebec Valley Art Association Memorial Scholarship Fund
Started in the 1960s by the board of the Kennebec Valley Art Association in Hallowell, the Kennebec Valley Art Association Memorial Scholarship was created as a way of honoring deceased members of the art association and their loved ones. The fund was moved to the Maine Community Foundation in 2010 and now provides assistance to a graduating senior from Hall-Dale High School who is pursuing post-secondary studies in the visual arts or in art education.
Contact: Hall-Dale High School guidance office
Michael E. Gosselin Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Michael E. Gosselin Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in 2017 to provide scholarship assistance to students graduating from Waterville High School, or its successor. Eligible students will be those pursuing a post-secondary degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) related field, and award decisions will be based on a student’s financial need and merit.
Contact: Waterville High School guidance office
Philip, David & Stephen Kelley Scholarship Fund
Established by the friends and family of Philip, David and Stephen Kelley, the scholarship supports graduates of Winthrop High School who are pursuing post-secondary education at the vocational or community college level.
Contact: Winthrop High School guidance office
Robert P. Cooper Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Robert P. Cooper Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to provide scholarship assistance to graduating seniors at Cony High School who are residents of Augusta, pursuing a post-secondary education in the trades at a college within the Maine Community College system or other accredited trade/vocational school in the state of Maine. For the purpose of this fund, trades may include, but are not limited to, construction, boat-building, auto mechanics, plumbing, heating, welding, and cooking; beauty school is excluded. Eligible candidates for this scholarship will exhibit financial need, strong character and a good work ethic.
Contact: Cony High School guidance office
Rome Scholarship Fund
The Rome Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to students who have been residents of Rome for at least two years prior to graduating from high school and who rank in the top half of their class.
Contact: Messalonskee High School guidance office
Sally Pike Memorial Fund
The Sally Pike Scholarship was established to benefit a graduating senior from Cony High School in Augusta who wishes to study music. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of character, musical achievement, and aptitude.
Contact: Cony High School guidance office
Tardiff-Fine Scholarship Fund
This scholarship, in memory of two long-time members of the Kennebec Valley Art Association in Hallowell, supports a graduating senior at Cony High School pursuing post-secondary education in the visual arts or art education. Antoinette Tardiff, born in Augusta, Maine in 1909, was a charter member of the Kennebec Valley Art Association at its founding in 1958. She remained an active member until her death in 2005. Antoinette started painting in 1951 and found it to be a rewarding expression of her feelings and ideas which she enjoyed sharing with others. She painted in different media, but preferred watercolor. Blanche T. Fine was a member of the KVAA from 1967 until her death in 1977. While she resided in Maine she was an active and loyal member of the art association where she volunteered as a gallery “hostess” through the 1960s. She continued to support the KVAA after she and her husband retired to Flourtown, Pennsylvania. Blanche’s husband, Dr. Salem Fine, established the scholarship in her memory with the KVAA in 1978.
Contact: Cony High School guidance office
Town of Winslow Esther Gagne Scholarship Fund
The Town of Winslow Esther Gagne Scholarship Fund was established to provide scholarship support to a deserving Winslow student of high academic achievement.
Contact: The Town of Winslow
Waning Faust Forestry & Agriculture Scholarship Fund
MaineCF partners with the University of Maine and the University of New England to offer the Waning Faust Forestry and Agriculture Scholarship. Eligible students at UMaine are juniors or seniors with a minimum GPA of 2.5, from Waldo or Kennebec counties, majoring in either forestry or agriculture. At the University of New England, eligible students are sophomores, juniors and seniors with a minimum GPA of 2.5, who are involved in the American Chestnut Restoration Project at UNE, with a preference for those students who have graduated from a Maine high school.
Contact: American Chestnut Restoration Project at UNE and the University of Maine Foundation
