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About Us
We are proof that the collective support of a community has enormous power to help its young people achieve their potential and affect change in their world.
About Us
We are proof that the collective support of a community has enormous power to help its young people achieve their potential and affect change in their world.
We are proof that the collective support of a community has enormous power to help its young people achieve their potential and affect change in their world.
The Foundation
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The Winchester Scholarship Foundation is a voluntary non-profit organization dedicated to providing need-based financial aid to students who have graduated from Winchester High School. The Scholarship Committee composed of five Winchester residents, awards scholarships based upon unmet family financial need. Since its establishment in 1945, the WSF has been supporting students during their four college years as well as students pursuing graduate degrees. Income from endowed gifts from organizations and individuals as well as annual contributions are the principal source of funding.
December, 2023
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation is proud to announce the creation of two new endowed scholarships funds recognizing and honoring the lives of two Winchester educators and residents. Each fund is the result of separate committees of Winchester residents feeling that the contributions of each educator should be commemorated forever…
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March, 2023
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation
Allocates $575,000 for 2023-2024 Scholarships
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation has allocated $575,000 to Winchester High School graduates or Winchester residents graduating from technical schools for the coming academic year. These scholarships will be awarded for both undergraduate and graduate education.…
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December, 2020
Winchester Scholarship Foundation Completes 75th year, Begins 76th
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation recently completed its 75th year and began its 76th year by awarding $498,100 to 133 Winchester High School graduates.
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January, 2016
Middlesex East features Winchester Scholarship Fund on 70th Anniversary
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Winchester Scholarship Foundation (WSF), an organization that provides scholarships for Winchester High School graduates with the support of Winchester residents.
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2010
Class of '60 Donates $10k to Scholarship Foundation
There really is something special about the Class of 1960. At their recent 50th reunion, Class President Paul De Rossi threw out a challenge to his fellow classmates. He asked that they double the $5,000 that was raised during their 45th reunion…
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November, 2023
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation recently completed its 78th year, highlighted by near-record scholarships awarded to Winchester High School graduates. Final awards totaled $551,300 to 118 undergraduate and graduate students. The most recent WHS graduates (Class of 2023) received 23 scholarships totaling $95,000…
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December, 2021
John Sullivan Scholarship Fund Attracts Contributions of $70,690
A scholarship fund created by John Sullivan’s Family and the Winchester Scholarship Foundation has received an extraordinary community response. The campaign was begun in November to honor John Sullivan’s life of service to Winchester…
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October, 2018
Winchester Scholarship Foundation, Profiled in Winchester's Life In The Flats Magazine
Though entirely unintentional, the Winchester Scholarship Foundation (WSF) may be one of Winchester’s best kept secrets. This may come as a surprise, considering that the organization was founded over seven decades ago in 1945…
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December, 2015
Winchester Star focuses on Winchester Scholarship Fund's 70th Anniversary
The Winchester Star begins their feature on Winchester Scholarship Fund with a title focused on the numbers—”Winchester Scholarship Foundation awards $378,950 in 2015"—but goes on to reveal the human impact.
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June, 2023
With over 50 years as an educator, 13 of which she spent as Superintendent of the Arlington
school district, you’d expect that Kathleen Bodie would be accustomed to being singled out. Yet
when the Winchester Scholarship Foundation first approached her about establishing an endowed scholarship in her name, her initial
reaction was mixed.…
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December, 2021
Winchester Scholarship Foundation Awards Record $558,682
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation recently completed its 76th year and began its 77th year by awarding a record $558,682 to 146 Winchester High School graduates. This year’s awards represent a 15.2% increase over the previous year when $484,700 was awarded to 133 graduates…
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January, 2017
Winchester Scholarship Foundation Gifts Record Amount to WHS Graduates; Applications Now Available
The Winchester Scholarship Committee (WSC) is pleased to announce they have awarded a record high amount of $434,684 in financial support to graduates of Winchester High School (WHS) for the 2016-17 academic year.
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March, 2011
$10,000 for Scholarships:
Class of 2010 Donates to WSF
The Winchester Scholarship Foundation (WSF) is the recipient of a $10,000 [gift] from the Class of 2010. This extraordinary gift will be used to create a named fund to honor the Class of 2010 that will provide scholarships in perpetuity for students pursuing a career in education.
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"Thank you so much for awarding me the scholarship. I have been really sick this summer with a chronic illness and was only able to make $500 of the $2500 my school expected me to pay personally, so this comes as a great relief and delight."
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- A WSF BENEFICIARY
