Scholarship

2014 Reed and Cleone Frischknecht Scholarship

 

 

 

What you could receive:

One scholarship will be awarded that will pay $600 for 2014 Spring Semester.

 

Who can apply:

This scholarship is for USU senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a record of high academic achievement and community service, and an interest in a career in public service majoring in one or more of the following: Communications; English; History; Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Political Science; Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology; Religious Studies; or Economics. Expected graduation date must not be before May 2014. Residents from the state of Utah will be given preference in selection.

 

How to apply:

Please submit a letter of application, a resume, a current USU transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable) or a transcript from previous colleges (for transfer students), and the names and contact information of three references.  There is no application form. Your letter should describe your interests, your experience, your community service, and your future career plans, as well as why you are interested in this scholarship. It should also indicate your connection to the state of Utah. Please submit your application simply stapled. Do not submit it in a folder or binder. If you choose to submit photos (this is not required), please limit the number to three. (Please be sure to include your contact information: mailing address, email, phone number, including where and how you can be reached over the Christmas holidays as well as at school.)

 

Selection of recipient shall be made by the scholarship committee of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

For more information, please call 435-797-0299 or stop by Old Main, Rm 339.  Applications must be received by 5:00 P.M. on Monday, November 18, 2013.  Submit all application materials to:

 

             Frischknecht Scholarship

             Mountain West Center for Regional Studies

             Utah State University

             Old Main 339

             UMC 0735

             Logan, UT 84322-0735                                                     

 

                                             The scholarship recipients will be notified in December. 

Reed L. and Cleone R. Frischknecht

Reed and Cleone Frischknecht were both born in Logan, Utah. They were married in 1946. Reed received his academic training at Utah State University and the University of Utah, earning his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Economics in 1952. In the 1950s, he served as a consultant and confidential assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He also served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Arthur V. Watkins (Utah) from 1954-1958. He returned to Utah and taught at the University of Utah from 1961 to 1974. At his retirement, the University of Utah chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, gave him a commendation for his high standards of scholarship, his personal interest in his students, and his willingness to serve as faculty advisor to the chapter. Cleone also attended Utah State University. She loves basketball and golf, but family and friends are her main interests. They are the parents of two children.