Pacific Yearly Meeting
of the
Religious Society of Friends

 

"Integrity and the Life of a Faith Community"

63rd Annual Gathering
July 27 - August 1, 2009
Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, CA

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To Clerks and PYM reps of Monthly Meetings of Pacific Yearly Meeting 

Re: PYM Scholarships Fund, 2009 

Dear Friends: 

Please duplicate and share with your Meeting/Worship group.

 The Annual Gathering for PYM will be at Walker Creek Ranch July 27 through August 1.  PYM Ministry & Oversight Committee invites applications for scholarships to attend. 

Here’s what each prospective applicant needs to do:

1.     Send in your registration form to the conference managers with the note that scholarship assistance has been applied for.  The Early Bird Registration must be postmarked by June 27th (4% discount).  The Regular Registration must be postmarked by July 20th.

2.     Fill out the Scholarship Application Form and submit to your local Monthly Meeting by July 1.

3.     You state how much you think you can pay yourself, the Monthly Meeting decides how much they can contribute from their scholarship funds, and then, if necessary, the form is sent on to the PYM Scholarship Fund by July 13.

4.     You are not required to participate as a teacher in the children’s program or as a Junior Yearly Meeting friendly-adult-presence; but working in those programs is another way to pay part of the costs of attending yearly meeting (and of having a wonderful experience too.) 

Please note that each application is to come through a Monthly Meeting. 

The Scholarship Fund is intended as a supplement to what individual Friends and their Monthly Meetings can provide.  These funds are limited.  We would like to be able to respond to all applicants, but our experience has been that requests exceed the funds available.  Thus we expect to work with a general limit of $150 for individual scholarships and $325 for families, with possible exceptions in special circumstances. We expect that your Monthly Meeting will provide at least half of the funds needed. 

 Your scholarship application and your registration form are processed separately. 

For those who have no Monthly Meeting affiliation, or who have other special circumstances, you may mail the application directly to me, along with an explanation of your situation. 

Scholarships are on a first-come, first-served basis.  We would like to help you attend, but if you delay we may not be able to help!  We welcome your participation in PYM and look forward to seeing you there. 

Sincerely, 

Jean Lester

666 Lombardy Place

San Marino, CA 91108

(626) 577-1691

jlester@socal.rr.com

 

 

 

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FOR PACIFIC YEARLY MEETING

(application in pdf)

July 27 to August 1, 2009, at Walker Creek Ranch

 

Note:  This is not a registration form for Yearly Meeting.  Get that from your Monthly Meeting or Worship Group or online at www.pacificyearlymeeting.org.  Send in your registration to the conference managers, with the amount you are able to pay.  The Early Bird Registration must be postmarked by June 27th (4% discount).  The Regular Registration must be postmarked by July 20th. Your Monthly Meeting must turn in this scholarship application to the PYM Scholarship Fund (see below) no later than July 13.  Your Monthly Meeting’s deadline for receipt of this application is July 1st.

 

Name:  ________________________________________________________

Mailing Address: ________________________________________________

                           ________________________________________________

Phone(s)    _____________________________________________________

Email         ___________________________________

Meeting or Worship Group: _______________________________________

 

Instructions to applicant:

1.   Use the PYM registration form to calculate the total cost for you to attend the annual session and pay in full your portion (the amount on Line 2 below), less any expected work stipend.

 

 

 

$______________

2.  Indicate the amount that you plan to pay.  (This may include stipends you expect to receive for work at the session.)

 

$______________

3.  Amount you are requesting (Line 1 minus Line 2)

 

$______________

4.     Give this request to your Monthly Meeting’s Ministry & Oversight

Committee (or other designated committee).

 

Instructions to Meeting M&O (or other designated committee)

5.  Please consider the above request and enter the amount your Meeting will contribute.  Notify the applicant of the amount your Meeting will be providing.

 

 

$_____________

6.  If you covered the entire request, you need not send this form to PYM.  If you have not, how much are you requesting from PYM Scholarship Fund? (Line 3 minus Line 5)

 

$_____________

 

Scholarship form for adult, teen (13 through 18), or family is mailed to:  Jean Lester

666 Lombardy Place, San Marino, CA 91108

jlester@socal.rr.com  (626) 577-1691

 

Young Friends scholarship form mailed to:

Sarah Cooper

2404 Montclair St. San Diego CA 92104

Sphinx300@aol.com  (619) 787-1516 

Check is mailed to:

The Conference Managers, TCM
PO Box 7276
Bismarck, ND 58507-7276

1-888-310-8900

 

Note on the “memo” line whom the scholarship is for.  If several members of your meeting are receiving scholarships from you, write just one check and send a note of how much is to be allocated to which Friend.

 

Do not send checks with the scholarship application form! 

If you have no Meeting affiliation or have other special circumstances, mail this form, complete through line 3, directly to the addresses in the box above.