1999 Wooddy Scholarships Awarded

Four college seniors have been chosen winners of the John Culver Wooddy Scholarships for 1998, the Actuarial Education and Research Fund (AERF) announced. The students will each receive $2,000 scholarships, which were established by the estate of John Culver Wooddy, a distinguished actuary who died in 1987. The Wooddy estate established the scholarship to help worthy actuarial students complete their education.

Wooddy Scholarship recipients for 1998 are:

• Tanya Beeker (Elizabethtown College), nominated by Gabriela Sanchis
• Weijian Liang (Zhongshan University, People's Republic of China), nominated by Shuguang Shen
• Victoria Maile (University of Wisconsin-Madison), nominated by Edward Frees
• Daniel Post (Lebanon Valley College), nominated by Bryan V. Hearsey.

Twenty-nine schools in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and China sent in applications for the scholarships. The next round of applications will be accepted in June 1999.

Undergraduates are eligible if they are scheduled for senior standing in the semester after the scholarship is awarded, rank in the top quartile of their classes, have successfully completed at least one actuarial examination, and are nominated by a professor at their school. Applicants must also submit a brief essay. Preference is given to candidates who have demonstrated leadership potential through extracurricular activities.