Full Music Scholarship?

HC awarded about $2.6 million in academic merit scholarships this year.  There is no breakout by full or partial. You'd divide the total by four to get the approximate amount for a class year.  There is a separate breakout for academic merit awarded by external sources, e.g., National Merits. I do not know how ROTC awards are classified.

The Classics Department has two different full tuition (presumably that means not covering room and board) scholarships. The Bean Scholarship is for two students per year. The Fitzgerald Scholarship is one student every four years. That gives us a total of 9. www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/classics/full-tuition-scholarships.

The Music Department has two scholarships. The Brooks Scholarship appears to be offered each year and the Organ Scholarship less frequently. If there is only one student on campus per year on the Organ Scholarship, we have 5 per year for musicians. www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/music/music-scholarships

The Ellis Scholarship is an annual full tuition merit scholarship so that would give us four more. www.holycross.edu/how-aid-works/scholarships-grants/ellis

This puts 17 kids on campus with full tuition ($50,000 per year) for a total of $850,000. I suspect that there are a lot of little funds in the endowment aimed at various departments that represent the rest, but that is just a guess.

Organ scholar is indeed tied to the Taylor & Booty organ as I beleive it was endowed as part of the organ purchase.

The scholarship may not have been offered the year the organ was installed (1984), but it was definitely available within a year or 2. At the outset it was 1 student every 4 years but I believe it has been offered a bit more frequently - maybe one every 2 or 3 years the past decade or so.

Sader, the University of Illinois gives full caddie scholarships, Chick Evans Scholarships, and they have their own house/dorm. My kids pointed this out to me when they attended U of I.

I wonder if that's funded by former Buckeye Jack Nicklaus.  Either that or only for women to help offset football for Title IX

The caddy scholarship (s) may not be an Ohio State U thing but, rather, a program sponsored by the Evans Scholar Foundation.

Here's the Wikipedia entry which suggests that there are scholarship winners in 19 colleges/universities

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Scholars_Foundation

I don't believe it is open to students matriculating at every college as all the Ohio winners were going to TOSU or Miami U.

GOLF, Ill.– Twenty-nine high school caddies from the state of Ohio have been awarded the Evans Scholarship, a full, four-year housing and tuition college grant offered to golf caddies, following a final selection meeting held at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati on Jan. 5.

Each caddie (listed below) has a unique story to tell, reflecting the scholarship’s four selection criteria: a strong caddie record; excellent academics; demonstrated financial need; and outstanding character. They will begin college in the fall of 2017, with recipients awarded to either Miami University in Oxford or Ohio State University in Columbus. The scholarship is valued at more than $100,000 over four years.

“Each of these deserving Evans Scholars epitomizes what our Program has been about since its creation in 1930,” said WGA Chairman David Robinson. “Their dedication, hard work and sacrifice is humbling, and we are honored to be able to help them pursue their dreams.”

The Ohio selection meeting was the seventh of more than a dozen such meetings the Evans Scholars Foundation will hold across the country through the spring. When the 2016-17 selection meeting process is completed by April, an estimated 270 caddies are expected to be awarded the Evans Scholarship.

The Western Golf Association, headquartered in Golf, Illinois, has supported the Chick Evans Scholarship Program through the Evans Scholars Foundation since 1930. One of golf’s favorite charities, it is the nation’s largest scholarship program for caddies.

Currently, a record 935 caddies are enrolled in 20 universities across the nation as Evans Scholars, and more than 10,400 caddies have graduated as Evans Scholars since the program was founded by famed Chicago amateur golfer Charles “Chick” Evans Jr.

“Based on their excellence in the classroom and their service to their schools and communities, there is little doubt that these young men and women have earned this life-changing opportunity,” said John Kaczkowski, WGA President and CEO. “We welcome them to the Evans Scholars family.”

Scholarship funds come mostly from contributions by 28,700 golfers across the country, who are members of the WGA Par Club program. Evans Scholars Alumni donate more than $11 million annually, and all proceeds from the BMW Championship, the third of four PGA TOUR Playoff events in the PGA TOUR’s FedExCup competition, are donated to the Evans Scholars Foundation.

Caddyshack references are almost always welcome!