West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Hon. Arthur Hill.

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back. They are an education in themselves and are much enjoyed. We have reason to be proud of our high school. The future seems hopeful and bright and we ask our alumni to be loyal to their Alma Mater. If they are not willing to be helpful to the school, who will? The best possible preparation for life’s work is a good education. Realizing this as all must, will you not give the Saginaw West Side high school your personal co¬ operation and make it the best institution of its kind in the State?

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To the Board of Trustees of the Union School District of the City of Saginaw: Gentlemen —I desire to give present effect to a testa¬ mentary provision made some time since for the erection of certain scholarships in connection with the high school of this district. It was and is my purpose to provide for four scholarships, one to he conferred at the end of each school year upon the graduate of the high school who ranks highest in scholarship in the studies pursued during the year when graduated, provided the graduate shall have attended the high school two years, and shall notify the trustees of a desire to pursue a course of study in the University of Michigan. The rank or standing of the graduates is to be fixed by a vote of the majority of the Board of Trustees, and the scholarships conferred in a like manner. Such scholarships shall entitle the holders to receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dol¬ lars each year for the term of four years from the date when conferred, payment thereof being made one-half at the begin¬ ning and one-half at the middle of the college year. But, to be entitled to these payments the student must enter the Uni¬ versity of Michigan and continue to pursue there a course of studies equivalent in educational value in tin judgment of the Faculty to what is termed a “regular” course. Should the graduate upon whom the scholarship is conferred either fail to promptly enter the University, or having entered, leave it, or not pursue the prescribed course of study, then the pay¬ ments of all moneys on account of the scholarship to the holder of the scholarship shall cease. If not more than two years have expired since the scholarship was conferred, then for the remainder of the term of four years the board of trustees shall pay at the rate of two hundred and fifty dol¬ lars each year to the graduate who ranked next to the one on whom the scholarship was conferred, but upon the same terms and conditions as to payment as is provided in the case of the holder of the scholarship, as awarded. A temporary break or interruption in college work is not to deprive a student of the right to the scholarship fund, and the board of trustees are expected to act leniently and with due consideration in such cases. It is intended that these scholarships shall be open alike to young men and young women, and that the course of study to be pursued in the University may be either literary, professional or technical. Reserving the right to alter these conditions as to details, 1 hereby bind myself to pay to the Union School District of the City of Saginaw, the sum herein provided to be paid on ac¬ count of the four scholarships to be established hereunder, which scholarships are to be originally conferred at the end