Scholarship Fund

TERSIGUEL'S French Country Restaurant in historic Ellicott City will hold a buffet dinner next week to raise money for the Jamie A. Roussey Scholarship Fund. Roussey, as many will recall, was the young Baltimore police officer killed in a car collision in March. The 22-year-old Catonsville resident had graduated from the Baltimore Police Academy four months earlier. The fund will help students at the academy. Roussey was on his way to help an officer on foot pursue a suspect when his car was broadsided.

Rotary speech scholarships Two seniors at Rockbridge Academy, a Christian school in Millersville, have won scholarships in the Rotary Club of Annapolis' Four-Way Test speech competition. Joshua Bradley of Gambrills advanced to the Rotary District 7620 semifinals, where he represented the Annapolis Rotary Club. He was selected as a finalist for the district competition held at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge in March and placed second in the final competition. In June, he is scheduled to enter the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he expects to major in mechanical engineering.

THE CROWD OF nearly 300 cheered and clapped raucously as two men hoisted the giant check into the air. They presented it to Dr. Joyce Payne. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund was some $5,000 richer.The crowd had good reason to cheer. They had raised the money, saving it from their jobs that pay them only 90 cents to $1.30 an hour. These fund-raisers, you see, were all inmates at Patuxent Institution in Jessup.Payne started the scholarship fund 11 years ago. Recipients get four-year merit scholarships to one of about 40 historically black colleges or universities.

Some of the legislators reacted as if they had been slapped -- hard.They argued with, and in one case harangued, citizens and fellow lawmakers who urged them to give up control of a $7 million college scholarship fund that they dole out to constituents.The atmosphere in the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday grew noticeably tense as half a dozen witnesses urged the delegates to turn over the scholarship money to a nonpolitical state board that would distribute it more fairly.They said the current program is a political perk for incumbents, one that helps them win favor with grateful families.

The Heisman Fine Arts Gallery will present a show of local art and an auction at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Jessup Community Hall, Route 175 and Wigley Avenue.The auction, which will include works by Delacroix, Llewelyn, Wyeth, Borelli and Neiman, will benefit the Julia S. Stafford Memorial Scholarship Fund to provide assistance to a 1997 graduate of Meade Senior High School.Most bids will begin at $50.Admission, $8 for individuals and $15 for couples, includes wine, soda, hors d'oeuvres and door prizes.

The music started as something they did for themselves. Now four county women use their collaborations to help others.Last month, their performance raised money to buy choir robes for the children at Cape St. Claire United Methodist Church.This month, they're putting on a benefit concert for a professor at Anne Arundel Community College who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.The women -- two vocalists, an organist and a flutist -- call themselves the Kindred Spirits, because, as organist Kathryn Miguez explains, "That's kind of how we feel about music.

BETHESDA - In the two years since her mother was killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Alison Heidenberger coped with shock followed by seemingly interminable sadness. She also finished college - thanks to a scholarship fund established by a group of Maryland parents who believe the best way to honor the state's 9/11 victims is to make sure their children are well cared for. In designing the fund, the creators tried to anticipate situations like that faced by Heidenberger, of Chevy Chase.

Rosa Pryor wanted to make a difference.A decade ago, after having several heart attacks and leaving the work she loved, "I felt that there was something missing," says Pryor, whom many know as "Rambling Rose," the byline for her weekly entertainment column in the Baltimore Afro-American.The thing is, the former singer, promoter and manager wasn't a rich woman. After a divorce, she'd worked hard to raise four kids. All she had was a passion for music and a desire to help her community.In her small, West Baltimore apartment, where the walls are filled with certificates of appreciation, Pryor, now 54, recalls that a friend suggested she start a scholarship fund.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore announced yesterday it was offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer of a dental student last weekend, as city police released details of its investigation. David J. Ramsay, president of the university's Baltimore campus, made the announcement, saying that the school's dental students also have been contributing money to a scholarship fund established in Christian W. Ludwig's name. Ludwig, 26, was stabbed to death about 3 a.m. Saturday when he tried retrieve a purse stolen from a female friend in the Ridgelys Delight neighborhood near the campus.

Peter G. Angelos, a prominent Baltimore lawyer, has pledged $1 million to the University of Baltimore Educational Foundation to establish an endowed scholarship fund for Maryland residents studying at its law school.When completely financed in four to five years, the endowment will generate about $50,000 in annual scholarship money, said Sheldon Caplis, vice president for development at the university.Mr. Angelos made an initial $250,000 contribution Thursday and will finance $12,000 to $15,000 in scholarships in the 1994-1995 school year, Mr. Caplis said.

The fourth annual Dancing for Dancers held Saturday at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts raised about $7,000 to benefit the Edward Stewart Memorial Scholarship Fund. Stewart was the founder of the Ballet Theatre of Annapolis (later the Ballet Theatre of Maryland) and served as the company's director for 22 years until his death from lung cancer in July 2002. He had expressed his wish to establish a scholarship fund to provide financial assistance for classical ballet training for promising students in Maryland.