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April 28, 2008

To:        All Steelworker members
Re:        The Norma Berti Steelworker Education Scholarship

The Steelworkers’ District 6 Director, Wayne Fraser, is pleased to call for applications for our new Norma Berti Education Scholarship.

Director Fraser will award a scholarship of $1,000 to a Steelworkers’ son or daughter who has been selected and meets the following criteria:

The Scholarship recipient must be enrolled (September 2008) in a full-time course of study leading to a diploma, certificate or degree from any publicly recognized college or university.

The criterion for the selection of the scholarship winner is as follows:

1. Evidence of enrollment in a publicly recognized college or university.
2.  An essay must be submitted with not more than 1,000 words about one of the following:

• A strong woman activist in our Union
• The history of our Women of Steel program
•  Groups or individual women who have contributed to the Steelworkers’ Union
• Initiatives the Steelworkers have made for women

The deadline for receipt of applicant’s submission is June 30, 2008.  The winner will be announced by July 31, 2008.

Please forward your information to:

Wayne Fraser, Norma Berti Scholarship 2008
200 Ronson Drive, Suite 300
Etobicoke, Ontario  M9W 5Z9

When you submit the above information, please include your full name and address and a contact number that you can be reached at.  Also, please advise us the name of the parent who is a Steelworker member and what their local union number is.