The Scholarship Program was founded in 2003 to benefit the sons and
daughters of the employees of the Plano Fire Department. PFRA provides
funding for this program from private and corporate donations. The
number of scholarships and amount of each varies dependent on available
funds – please see the website “home page”
during the first quarter of each year for details.
(2009 Update: Please note that scholarships are no longer available to
previous
recipients.)
Eligibility is based on the following criteria:
• Applicant must be a child/dependent of a currently
employed or retired Plano Fire Department employee.
• Must not have been convicted of a felony
• Must be under 25 years of age
• Applicant must be enrolled for a minimum of 12
hours of college credits (or considered a full time student by the
institution) at an accredited college, university, or vocational school.
• If applicant is an incoming college freshman or
equivalent, an acceptance letter, a fee receipt or other proof of
enrollment from the educational institution must be provided
• If applicant is currently attending college, proof
of enrollment including college credits must be provided.
• If applicant plans to attend a vocational/other
school, proof of enrollment and proof of high school graduation with
transcript must be provided.
• Applicants may be requested to participate in a
personal interview as part of the selection process.
All applications are to be submitted to the Scholarship Program in care
of the PFRA and must be postmarked no later than May 15th of the
current year.
Scholarship recipients will be selected by the “PFRA Scholarship
Committee”, these are our notes. The Committee pledges its best
efforts to make these awards with a concentration on the quality of the
application and fairness to each applicant. Selection encompasses
the following:
• A numerical ranking of all applicants with emphasis
on academic test scores and academic awards.
• Your application must be complete – respond to all
questions/requests completely. If you cannot, provide an
explanation - attention to details and complete responses matter.
Incomplete responses may disqualify your application.
• Do not speak in acronyms – abbreviations/acronyms
may have several meanings. (However, we do understand SAT/ACT!)
• Provide additional information when necessary to
help us understand your “circumstances” – we do not know you, give us
some help/insight!
• Appearances matter – neatness, readability,
timeliness of submittal. You should spend as much time on your
application as you expect us to spend on our review of it!
• Recommendations from teachers and/or other
professionals are impressive.
• Your educational goals should be well thought-out
and clearly stated. Put some effort into this. Fund-raising
is hard work for us – convince us that if we give our funds to you, we
will have made a good choice.
• Understand that you are competing with other
deserving applicants – give this your best effort!
2010
Scholarship Award Recipients
Jordan
Amadon, Victoria Banuelas, and Katherine Schooling

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Victoria & Katherine to be awarded at August Meeting
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2009
Scholarship Award Recipients
Callie Swaner, Justin Baldia, Kristin Hardie
2008
Scholarship Award Recipients
Taylor Amadon, Randall
Rasor,
Sabrina Rasor, Kaile York
2007 Scholarship Award
Recipients
Andrew Shafer, Andrew
Mason,
Daniel Smith, Ashley Edwards, Brandon Helm
2006 Scholarship Award
Recipients
Sabrina Rasor, Chelsea
Peacock,
Emily Eastham, Ashley Edwards
2005 Scholarship Award
Recipients
Michael Malone, Austin
Combest,
Justin Gladney, and Danielle Vice
2004 Scholarship Award
Recipients
Emily Gibbs, Amanda Mason,
Heather York, Chad Overman
Where
Are They Now?
PFRA has awarded 23
scholarships
since 2003! Recently, our Scholarship Committee Chair Maricia
Hurst
followed up these students to find out about their status since
receiving
their PFRA Scholarship award. Here's a quick summary:
- Steve Duffy's
daughter
Elizabeth (2003) is a fourth year medical student at the University of
Texas Southwest and plans to work in the specialty field of Family
Practice.
- Dwayne Dicken's
son
Zachery
(2003) graduated from Texas Tech University, magna cum laude, with
degrees
in Wildland & Wildlife Management and Equine Science, and he has
also
graduated Fire School. He owns a lucrative farrier business (as
in
shoeing horses!) in Lubbock.
- Gayland Gibbs's
daughter Emily
(2004) is teaching high school Spanish in the Floresville ISD.
She
graduated in 2005 from the University of Texas with a double major in
Business
and Spanish.
- Bob Mason's
daughter
Amanda
(2004) graduated from Texas A&M in 2006. She is married and
has
taught elementary school classes in Virginia prior to having her first
baby in the summer of 2008.
- Brent Overman's
son
Chad (2004)
is currently a senior at Texas A&M.
- Wayne York's
daughter
Heather
(2004) graduated with honors from Dallas Baptist University in
2007.
She is teaching in Garland and was married in the summer of 2008.
- Don Gladney's son
Justin (2005)
is a senior at Dallas Baptist University majoring in Biblical Studies
with
a minor in Philosophy; he has been called to be a minister. He
has
further plans to earn a doctorate in Languages, Greek and Hebrew.
- Mark Vice's
daughter
Danielle
(2005) has graduated from North Texas University with a major in
Kinesiology
and a minor in Biology. She is engaged to a young man who wants
to
be a fireman.
- Larry Combest's
son
Austin (2005)
is serving our country in the US Army and is stationed in Alaska.
- Mike Malone's son
Michael Wade
(2005) is a junior at the University of Texas in Dallas. He is
studying
Art and Technology and plans to work in the field of animation.
- Allan Rasor's
daughter
Sabrina
(2006 and 2008) is a junior at Southern Methodist University majoring
in
accounting at SMU's Cox School of Business. She has earned Honors
with Distinction and through her sorority is an active supporter of St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital. Her plans are to earn an MS in
Accounting and pass the CPA exam.
- Ronnie Eastham's
daughter Emily
(2006) is studying English and History at Texas Tech University and
plans
to attend law school after graduation. She received the Emerald
Scholar
Award for outstanding GPA and is an officer in her sorority.
- David Edward's
daughter Ashley
(2006 & 2007) has been working in the Plano Public Safety
Communications
department and the Plano Library System. In the fall of 2008 she
will continue her junior year at North Texas State University.
- Toby Peacock's
daughter Chelsea
(2006), finished her freshman year at Texas A&M, has been working
in
a bank in Paris (Texas). She is enrolled now at Paris Junior
College
and is studying to be a nurse.
- Mike Shafer's son
Andrew (2007)
attended the University of North Texas and is now pursuing a career in
fire fighting. He has completed EMT school and is now enrolled in
an on-line fire school.
- Brooke Smith's son
Daniel (2007)
is in his junior year at Texas A&M Commerce majoring in
Business.
He is active in his fraternity and involved in several charitable
functions.
- Kelly Helm's son
Brandon (2007)
is a sophomore at East Central University in Oklahoma. He is
majoring
in kinesiology and plays football. He plans to be a coach and
teacher.
- Bob Mason's son
Andrew
(2007)
will begin his sophomore year at Texas A&M in the fall of
2008.
He is majoring in Community Health and plans to be a firefighter.
He has spent the summer of '08 attending Richland College and working
as
a lifeguard.
- Jeff Amadon’s son
Taylor (2008)
will be attending the Honors College at the University of Arkansas as
an
Engineering major.
- Allan Rasor’s son
Randy (2008)
will attend SMU pursuing MBA and Law degrees.
- Wayne York’s
daughter
Kaile
(2008) will attend Baylor University as a pre-med student.
The members of PFRA are
proud
that we have been able to support these young people in their pursuit
of
their goals and accomplishments.
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