Town offers scholarships for high school seniors headed to college or trade school  

The Town of Front Royal is accepting scholarship applications from high school seniors for the annual Lyle B. Wright Scholarship and the Richard H. Gorsuch Scholarship from American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP), the company which supplies electricity to the town.

The applicant for the $3,000 scholarship must be a student whose household receives electricity from the Town of Front Royal. 

Since 1988, American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) has distributed over $400,000 in scholarship awards in communities it serves with electrical power. 

Lyle B. Wright was a strong public power advocate on both state and local levels. He served on the boards of both American Municipal Power-Ohio Inc. and the Ohio Municipal Electric Association. The scholarship was created and named in his honor in 1989. 

Richard H. Gorsuch was president of American Municipal Power (AMP) from 1983 until his death in 1987, AMP is the non-profit wholesale power supplier and services provider for 135-member municipal electric systems in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Maryland and Delaware, serving over 650,000 customers. Gorsuch is remembered for the vital role he played in protecting public power interests, promoting the advantages of municipally owned electric utilities and advancing public power on local, state and national levels. 

Last year’s scholarship recipient, Warren County High School student, Ian Hoelsher, planned to study engineering at Virginia Tech.

AMP established the scholarships to encourage high school students to further their education, and to create an awareness of careers in the municipal electric utility field.  

AMP is giving up to five one-time scholarship awards of $3,000 each. Each municipality in the AMP member community—of which the Town of Front Royal is a member–sends AMP one nominee per scholarship. 

Rules and Eligibility: 

• Applicant must be a graduating high school senior who has met all the basic requirements for college or technical school entrance and has a cumulative, unweighted grade-point average based on an unweighted 4.0 scale for six semesters 
• Applicant must send a completed application with a short essay on Electricity or Green Initiatives and attach his/her high school transcript with a cumulative grade-point average based on a 4.0 scale for six semesters, to the Town of Front Royal by Tuesday, December 13, 2022.  
• A committee will review all nominations and one nominee will be selected for each scholarship. The Town Manager will submit a letter to all nominees advising them of their status after December 16, 2022. 

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