TEF Scholarships Upper Class

A $2,000 Bridge Builder Scholarship has been established for sophomore, junior and seniors in college who are enrolled as an undergraduate student in an ABET accredited engineering or engineering technology program. Applications for the 2016-2017 academic year are due June 1, 2016. Additional engineering scholarships may be available from the Engineers” Society of Tulsa and the American Society of Civil Engineers - Tulsa Branch. All applications received will also be considered for this scholarships.

Application Form A word document version is available by calling (918) 906-7929 or email wollmersh@aol.com.

Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must meet the following  qualifications:

1. Applicant must be enrolled as an undergraduate student in an ABET accredited engineering or engineering technology program (see http://www.abet.org) for a list of eligible schools and majors.
2. Applicant must have a grade point of 3.0 or higher.
3. Applicant must be able to accept the scholarship for the academic year starting in the Fall of 2015 and must not already be receiving full funding from other organizations.

The Bridge Builder Fund was established in 2014. It is based on the poem The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole.

The Bridge Builder

An old man going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening cold and gray,

To a chasm vast and deep and wide.

Through which was flowing a sullen tide,

The old man crossed in the twilight dim,

The sullen stream had no fears for him;

But he turned when safe on the other side

And build a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,

“You are wasting your strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day,

You never again will pass this way;

You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,

Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head;

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followed after me to-day

A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm that has been as naught to me

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;

He, too , must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building the bridge for him!”

by Will Allen Dromgoole

Source: Father: An Anthology of Verse (EP Dutton & Company, 1931)