We are accepting applications for the 15th Annual Marjorie Farabaugh Nurse Practitioner Student Scholarship

Marjorie Farabaugh Nurse Practitioner Student Scholarship

Applications are being accepted for the 15th annual Marjorie Farabaugh Nurse Practitioner Student Scholarship. There is one $2,000.00 scholarship and two $1000 scholarships being awarded this year.

In 2006 the Laurel Highlands Nurse Practitioner Association along with family, friends and colleagues established this scholarship fund in memory of Marge, one of the area’s first nurse practitioners.  The scholarship is a collaborative initiative between the 1889 Foundation and Laurel Highlands Nurse Practitioner Association. Marge is fondly remembered by the medical community as well as her patients. She was a nurse practitioner of great compassion and a woman of courage. Before her untimely death she had built a thriving rural practice, and – having beaten cancer once – she volunteered to take the first trial of a breast cancer vaccine. During her career Marge worked at both Memorial and Lee Medical Centers and she lectured at Penn State University and Mount Aloysius College.

The Laurel Highlands Nurse Practitioner group continues to honor Marge’s memory by keeping this scholarship going in her name. Those wishing to apply for the scholarship should be a student in an accredited Nurse Practitioner program, with a GPA of at least 3.2 and be a resident of Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset, or Westmoreland County. This scholarship is not only focused on acknowledging an outstanding nurse practitioner student, but also on encouraging nurse practitioners to use their skills locally. The scholarship recipient should show a strong interest in seeking employment as a nurse practitioner in the Laurel Highlands region.

For the guidelines and application please contact Anthony Good, President of the Laurel Highlands Nurse Practitioner Association at Lhnpassociation@yahoo.com or call 814-472-2833. The deadline for submission November 1, 2024.

Those interested in contributing to the Marjorie Farabaugh Nurse Practitioner Student Scholarship Fund should contact the 1889 Foundation at 814-532-0100 or via email at www.1889foundation.org