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Amador Valley Scholarships Inc., which helps students graduating from Amador Valley, Foothill and Village high schools, has added two more scholarships this year.
The organization was started in 1965 when a group of Pleasanton educators and business people held a “Scholarships Frolics” to raise money for Amador students who wanted to go into the teaching profession. Now the scholarships don’t require a specific major, and in 1975 they began to include students seeking technical or vocational training.
Also, starting in 2019, the Jim Reding Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Dublin or valley seniors who attended Wells Middle School.
This year two more scholarships have been added:
* The Richard and Freida Greville Memorial Scholarship. The Grevilles had no children of their own but, living across the street from Amador Valley High, they enjoyed watching the students come and go. When they died, they left an endowment to AVSI to award a scholarship each year to an Amador student.
* The Zachary Scanlan Memorial Scholarship. Scanlan, a 2016 graduate of Foothill High, died Nov. 11, 2020, after a two-year battle with cancer. It was Scanlan’s wish to start a scholarship for a graduating senior from his alma mater.
Since 1965, $764,500 has been distributed to 614 students through the memorial scholarships to help students who need financial assistance to enter college.
For more information, visit www.amadorvalleyscholarshipsinc.org.
