Lurener Isaac Speight Endowed Scholarship

Established by friends and family of Lurener Speight. First priority of consideration is given to freshman students who are enrolled in the College of Education, who graduated from a high school within the Sumter County, Alabama, public school system, and who meet the minimum scholarship requirements to attend The University of Alabama. Second priority of consideration is given to freshman students who have graduated from a high school within the Sumter County, Alabama, public school system and who meet the minimum scholarship requirements to attend The University of Alabama. The donor intends for this scholarship to primarily help incoming freshmen in their first years of school. However, if there are no other qualified applicants the scholarship may be awarded to upper-division students within the College of Education who have graduated from a high school within Sumter County, Alabama, public school system. The donor also requests that graduates of charter schools within Sumter County not be awarded this scholarship. The donor desires that only one scholarship be given if the earnings for the scholarship are less than $2,000 and all scholarships shall be a minimum of $1,000 if two or more scholarships are given in an academic year.