UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION SHEET

NAME OF SCHOLARSHIP: Don Arends Memorial, Fire Fighter’s Endowed Scholarship

ENDOWED: YES                                              

CODE: #5647   DATE:  Feb 1997

ESTABLISHED BY: 

Utah State Firemen’s Association - donation $5,000    

Sandy City Firemen’s Association –donation $5,000

CORRESPONDENCE:

Utah State Firemen’s Association

Sandy City Fire Department

UVU RESPONSIBLE PARTY:

Nancy Smith

Director, Donor Relations & Private Scholarships

Utah Valley University

800 West University Parkway Mail Stop: 111

Orem, Utah 84058-5999
Phone: 801 863-8896
Fax: 801 863-8604
e-mail: smithna@uvsc.edu

SELECTION CRITERIA HIGHLIGHTS & NOTES:

  • Award to student or students enrolled in the Fire Science Program at UVU.

  • For tuition only.

  • Student must enroll for a minimum of 6 credit hours and have a good academic standing (3.0 GPA).

  • A fire fighter, a child or grandchild of a fire fighter with financial need shall have preference.

  • No trustee, employee of the college, or their immediate family shall receive this scholarship.

  • In selecting candidates, no consideration shall be given to color, creed or nationality.

  • A committee will be part of the final selection for awarding scholarship. The selection committee will consist of :

    • A member of the Sandy City Firemen’s Association
    • Members of the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Firemen’s Association.

    UPDATED 5/9/08

University Health Care Burn Center

Severe burn injury is everyone's worst nightmare. Unfortunately, for patients at the University Health Care Burn Center, it is a reality. Our center admits an average of 400 patients annually, half of those are children.

The Burn Center receives patients with severe thermal, chemical, electrical and child abuse injuries from a five-state referral area throughout the Intermountain West. Staffs at the Burn Center provide a full range of services including intensive care, burn surgery, burn therapy, and outpatient treatment. Still, burn survivors need more than just medical care. They also require support in dealing with their permanent disfigurement and scarring, especially adolescents.

Due to our survivor’s needs for social and emotional healing, the staff at the Burn Center wanted to help previously burned adolescents beyond their daily medical care. In 1993, Burn Camp was organized; a six-day river rafting and camping trip that has been an overwhelming success for the past 14 years. As we embark on our 15th year we are holding our 1st annual benefit fundraiser on Friday, May 4th 2007. Included in our event will be dinner/dancing and a silent auction. We anticipate that approximately 250 guests will attend from around the Intermountain West, many of them nurses, doctors, parents of burn survivors, and firefighters.

The Burn Center and the Salt Lake Valley Firefighters Foundation are asking for your assistance in making this event a great success. The funds raised at this event will ensure that young adolescents are able to have the opportunity to become friends with others who have been through similar experiences, while at the same time developing self-esteem, coping skills, and a feeling of achievement.

At the University Health Care Burn Center, we are committed to providing this opportunity for our patients. The rewards of your tax-deductible contribution will be satisfying to you as well as to the burn survivors. We appreciate your support, and thank you for your consideration. Please contact Brad Wiggins, at (801)-581-2008 or j.bradley.wiggins@hsc.utah.edu. If you become a sponsor we will place a link and your company logo on our sponsor site and at the silent auction tables where the items are displayed. Federal 501c3- 876000525.
 
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