New Scholarship Funds

Memorial Fund to Honor Laddie Lollar
and Dee Dee Moon Lollar

Dear Friends and Fellow Alums of School of the Osage,

Sometimes when you're young, people touch your life in ways you don't understand at the time. Laddie Lollar is one of those persons. He treated those of us who worked with him as equals, valuing our opinions and letting us believe we were in charge of the publications. Dee Dee worked for several years in the office and was a valuable part of the administration.

During 2007 several of us discussed opening a memorial account with the School of the Osage Foundation in honor of Laddie and Dee Dee. We have now taken the necessary steps to open an account. Ideally it would attract enough donations to provide a scholarship in their honor. My experience with scholarships is that it takes a large endowment to fund a scholarship that would provide meaningful support to university bound students in this world.

So, we will give the fund a year to see how much money is raised. If the number is promising, we’ll continue to work for a scholarship in their names. If not, we will propose giving the money to existing endowments which are not large enough to provide meaningful support to recipients. If that happens, we’ll keep an account in Laddie and Dee Dee’s name, it will just be given to already-established scholarships. It seems to me that either way we would be contributing in a reasonable way to honor Laddie and Dee Dee.

The account is set up. Now I’m asking you to consider giving in Laddie and Dee Dee's honor. How much you give is your decision. Any amount, no matter how large or how small will be a testament to a couple of people who gave to Osage and touched our lives between 1951 and 1958­beyond for some of us.

Please mail your donations, large or small to:

Thanks for any donation you can make.
Morgan Pope, Class of 1955

Class of 1998 Scholarship

The School of the Osage Class of 1998 is offering a "Student Achievement Award" scholarship, in celebration of their 10-year high school graduation anniversary. The $400 scholarship will be awarded to one student who best exemplifies goal-setting, hard work, and continuous improvement based on the essay and letter of recommendation. Eligible students must graduate from School of the Osage in May 2008 and have post-high school education plans at an accredited institution (college, trade school, fine arts school). Student applications are due April 11, 2008, and the scholarship recipient will be announced at the Academic Awards Ceremony, May 8, 2008. If you would like to donate to the scholarship fund, please send a check made out to: