Ruston High School Alumni Association

Ruston High School
Outstanding Achievement Award

At the time John B. Holstead retired from the law firm of Vinson & Elkins of Houston, Texas, a scholarship was created at Ruston High School honoring John for his many outstanding years with the firm. This scholarship is known as the Outstanding Achievement Award.

The nominees for the scholarship are graduating seniors (usually three or four) who are selected by the faculty at RHS using certain agreed upon criteria. The names and résumé's of the nominees are submitted by Ruston High School to the Scholarship Committee of the RHS Alumni Association. This committee considers the nominees and selects the recipient from that group. The recipient from the preceding year presents the Outstanding Achievement Award to the selected student each year during commencement. The recipient of the award receives an unrestricted $1,500 scholarship, and his or her name is inscribed on a plaque that hangs in the entry hall at RHS. One of the objectives of the award is to encourage a recent, outstanding graduate who is attending college to return to RHS each year and serve as an example to the students

Vinson & Elkins law firm provided the initial funds for the award, and a gift from John B. Holstead graciously matched it. It is the desire of the Alumni Association to keep this scholarship in place long after the existing funds have been exhausted through donations from other alumni interested in Ruston High School.

If you wish to make a tax-deductible contribution to the RHS Alumni Scholarship Fund, do so by marking it as a scholarship fund donation to the Ruston High School Alumni Association, a Non-Profit-Corporation.

RHS Alumni Association
Scholarship Challenge

Dear Ruston High School Alumni and Friends:

In October of 2008, the RHS Alumni Association was challenged to raise at least $5,000 to be used exclusively for RHS Student Academic Scholarships and Awards. If we could raise $5,000, or more, the anonymous challenger (a Ruston High alumnus) agreed to donate an additional $5,000 to this wonderful cause.

The 700+ members of the RHS Alumni Association rose to the challenge and met it.

With this anonymous donation of $5,000, the $5,000 that was raised by the association and the $9,000 already on hand, the RHS Alumni Association now has $19,000 designated for academic excellence. The association is presently awarding one $1,500 annual scholarship. These additional monies now enable us to award multiple scholarships to deserving seniors. But without continued contributions from our membership and supporters, these funds will soon be gone. Please join us in continuing to donate to this worthy cause. You can donate by writing your check payable to RHS Alumni Association and noting on the memo line “Scholarship Donation”. Every donation will help, whether it is $20 or $1,000. Your contributions are tax deductible.

Thank you in advance for your donation and for keeping Ruston High School in the forefront of scholastic achievement in Louisiana.

Sincerely,

RHS Alumni Association Board of Directors

The Ruston Daily Leader
July 21, 2009

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RHS Alumni Association Outstanding Achievement Award