Old Boys’ Union: Scholarship

The Shore Old Boys’ Union will shortly be offering all students in Year 12 the opportunity to apply for the OBU Scholarship. The Scholarship is awarded by the Old Boys’ Union to a boy (or boys) completing their final year at School.  

The Scholarship is provided to the successful recipient/s after they leave Shore, to provide financial support in the pursuit of an activity (or activities) that seek to serve the wider community. Shore has always sought to ‘Build Good Men’. One of the characteristics of ‘Good Men’ is that they seek to serve others (family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and the wider society).  

The purpose of providing the financial support is so that the Old Boy can pursue some form of ‘service’ activity that they might not normally have the resources to pursue. The Scholarship seeks to acknowledge both a boy’s appreciation of the School’s aims and also his desire to put into practice, in a unique way, what they have learnt. The value of the Scholarship is a minimum of $3,000. It may be utilised by the recipient/s over a three-year period up to 31 December of the third year following the final year of School. The Scholarship recipient/s are announced in the final week of Term 3. 

Some examples of service-related activities might include – volunteering for a charity; serving with Indigenous communities; participating in an Aid programme; assisting Rural communities in times of need; volunteering with the SES; volunteering with a local community group or volunteer coaching at a local club/sporting club. 

Last year’s recipient Angus Fisher is using his artistic talents as a volunteer at Hammond Care, where art therapy is offered to dementia patients. 

Top image: Art therapy at Hammond Care.