Scholarships

Values and habits are formed at an early age. Each one of us must be a trustee of our community, and as a trustee, be responsible for leaving the community in better condition than we found it.

Purpose

The Mom Iversen Service Scholarship Fund awards student scholarships for community service in recognition of Ingeborg “Mom” Iversen and countless others like her who have focused their lives on serving others. Students are often recognized for academic and extra-curricular activities, but gifts of service too often go unrewarded. The Mom Iversen Service Scholarship seeks to recognize those who, at an early age, have discovered the rewards of service and provides them with assistance to advance their education beyond high school.

Through us, Mom Iversen’s love lives on.

It is in her memory, for her love and her giving ways, that Ike Leighty and his Leighty Foundation have established a $1,000 yearly scholarship, for a Senior student receiving a high school diploma that will be chosen and awarded by the Cedar Falls AMVETS Post 49.


Eligibility and Application

To be eligible for the Mom Iversen Service Scholarship, a student must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a high school Senior receiving a diploma.
  • Plan to attend an accredited public or private University, College, Vocational Technical School, or other post-secondary institution upon graduation from high school.
  • Be a good example and a role model for others.
  • Demonstrate an attitude of sharing and caring by giving freely of their time and talent in service to others in their community.
  • Have contributed at least 100 hours of service to their community within a 12-month period.
  • Be willing, if awarded the scholarship, to serve on the selection committee the following year and work to promote service within his or her school. We need your help!


Some Examples of Service

  • A student who shoveled the walk for a sick neighbor and never asked for pay.
  • A student who helps younger students with homework, getting to school, or when the younger student is being harassed.
  • A student who always goes out of her/her way to include other students who are not so easily accepted.
  • A student who volunteers with human service agencies (e.g. Food Bank, Boys & Girls Club, YWCA, etc.) or hospitals but gets little recognition.
  • A student who participates in volunteer clean up days at school or in the community.

Application Process

To apply, request and complete the application form and send it with two letters of recommendation and one typewritten page addressing the following topics:

Describe an experience(s) in which you gave freely of your time and talent in service to another.

  • What made it significant to you?
  • What did you learn from the experience that might help you to encourage other students to serve?
  • List ways you have served others. This can be formal volunteering in an agency or in school, or in simple ways, such as visiting the elderly or shoveling walks for sick or older people.

If you know of a student who should be recognized, won’t you do everything you can to see to it that the student applies? It is through recognition that we hope to encourage others to serve.


Deadline

All applications are due by March 12 of each year.

Request Application from and Send to:
Cedar Falls AMVETS Post 49
Attn: Scholarship Committee
PO Box 112
Cedar Falls, IA 50613

Questions?

Contact: 319-277-6655 and Ask for Gary Klodt, Barry Remington, or Steve Hunemuller