The Scottish Rite Creed
The cause
	Of human progress
		Is our cause,

The enfranchisement
	Of human thought
		Our supreme wish,

The freedom
	Of human conscience
		Our mission, and

The guarantee of equal rights
	To all peoples everywhere
	    The end of our contention.

Application For Book Grant

Name _____________________
Address ___________________
Cell Phone ___________________
Date of Birth ________________
High School Attended _________
Year Graduated ______________
Parent(s) or Guardian _________
Address ____________________
Parents’ Occupation ___________
 ________________ ___________

I will be attending the following college, university, or post-secondary school:
___________________________

Please submit with this application, a paper no greater than one page, describing activities you have been involved in and your contribution to your community.

Please enclose a transcript of the high school or college you last attended and ACT Scores.
Transcript enclosed:  Yes ___  No ___

Date: _______________________
Signature ___________________

For Book Grant Committee

Book Grants

Of
The Scottish Rite
Foundation
Of 
South Dakota, Inc.

Scottish Rite
Book Grant
Program

GENERAL INFORMATION
	The Scottish Rite Foundation was organized in 1955 for the purpose of providing funds for the education of South Dakota youth.  Our program includes the granting of book grants to high school graduates or college students to attend college, university or post-secondary school of your choice.

PURPOSE
         This is a program to help educate any qualified student at a university or post-secondary school of his or her choice.

ELIGIBILITY
	Any student desiring to attend a university or post-secondary school may apply.  Book grants will be awarded on the basis of desire to attend college and financial need.  Post-secondary schools include trade and vocational schools.

AMOUNT OF BOOK GRANT
	Book grants are awarded in the amount of $250.00 each to assist in buying books.  Book grant checks are made payable to the student and school.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
	April 1 of the year in which the book grant is to be received.

AWARDING OF BOOK GRANTS
   Final action and awarding of the book grants will be made by Aberdeen valley in late spring.  Consider including your email address.

   For more information and submission of the application for a book grant, contact your Aberdeen Scottish Rite office.

Mail Applications to:
   Aberdeen Valley Scottish Rite
   P.O. Box 1026
   Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401

What is the Scottish
Rite Foundation?
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always came back again to where they were.  The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is in everything where power moves.
  -Black Elk (1863-1950) Oglala Sioux Holy Man
   Incorporated since 1955 and inaugurated with a substantial gift from The Supreme Council, the Scottish Rite Foundation was established for benevolent and educational purposes.  It has, for instance, offered graduate fellowships in public school administration.  From the 1920s, the Scottish Rite was active regionally in university dormitory construction, hospital building (focused on children, many of whom were polio patients), and deaf education.
   In the 1950s a new field of service opened to the Scottish Rite Foundation, one well matched with the organization’s precedent of helping children and young people.  The diagnosis and treatment of children with aphasia, a condition sometimes caused by a brain injury, which inhibits the timely development of childhood language skills, fit perfectly the Foundation’s purpose and goals. Other language learning dysfunctions among children, such as dyslexia and stuttering, are today being treated with the most up-to-date therapies in over 100 Scottish Rite clinics and programs.
                     Reprinted from Scottish Rite of Freemasonry           Southern Jurisdiction pamphlet..