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National Douglass Alumni Corporation (NDAC) awarded $24,975.00 to eighty-four (84) studentsÕ fifty (50) scholarships and thirty-four (34) book allowances to students enrolled in college. 

 

The National Douglass Alumni Corporation provides scholarships to eligible graduating seniors of active Douglass High School alumnus.

 

In 1985 thethe NDAC began giving scholarships to an alumni sponsored graduating senior. After a time scholarships were given to graduates of Kingsbury and Craigmont who were connected to a NDAC financial member as we thought they would have graduated from Douglass High School had it not closed. 

 

Funding for scholarships is derived from Alumni classes and supporters who make annual pledges to build an endowment for the scholarship fund.  NDAC has been responsible for giving scholarships to students from Douglass High School for over twenty-eight years even after the Douglass High School closed in 1981.   

 

In November of 2008 three friends of NDAC, Mayor A. C. Wharton, then Shelby County Mayor, Congressman Steve Cohen and Dr. Ada Jane Walters, former principal of Craigmont High School presented to the Douglass High School Principal Mrs. Janet W. Thompson a check in the sum of $500.00 each.  This year, plans are to award each graduate a scholarship. All students are eligible if sponsored by a qualified NDAC member. We accept monetary donations of any size to help reach our goal of $160,000.  All contributions are tax deductible and can be made to: 

                                                     

NDAC SCHOLARSHIP FUND

3200 MT. OLIVE RD.

MEMPHIS, TN 38108

ATTÕN: MS. VALLIE WILLIAMS

 

 

For more information contact:

Vallie Williams, NDAC Scholarship Chair

901-266-3043

Richard K. Bowden, NDAC National President

301-466-5729

 

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