The White Falcon - 02.11.1984, Side 7

Dependent's Scholarship Program
Are you having difficulty finding funds to
finance the college education of you son or
daughter? Your task may be made easier through
the Dependents' Scholarship Program.
Coordinated by the Naval Military Personnel
Command, the program encompasses 26 scholarships
sponsored by Navy-oriented organizations. Schol-
arships are awarded on the basis of scholastic
merit, character and financial need for educa-
tional purposes beyond the high school level.
A key advantage to the program is that the
scholarships are generally awarded exclusively to
dependent children, including adopted and step-
children, of present and former members of the
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. To qualify
as a dependent child, the individual must be un-
married and under the age of 21 (or 23 if enroll-
ed full time at an approved institution of high-
er learning.)
Requests for the Dependents' Scholarship Pro-
gram materials packet may be submitted after
September 1, 1984, and until March 15, 1985, to
Commander, Naval Military Personnel Command,
NMPC-121D, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.,
20370. Included in the packet is the Scholarship
Pamphlet (NAVPERS 15003-L) which contains a list-
ing of available scholarships, eligibility re-
quirements, the closing date for applications and
additional information needed to apply.
In addition to requesting this packet, appli-
cants should also contact their area or state
agencies, high school guidance counselors, prin-
cipals or financial aid officers of the college
university under consideration for additional
financial aid source information.
There is scholarhsip money available for Navy
children pursuing a college education. Give the
Dependents' Scholarship Program a try -- you may
be pleasently surprised!
Community College of the Air Force Graduation
Colonel Dallas R. Hanna, AFI Commander, addressed
the graduates of the Community College of the Air
Force at a ceremony recently. According to Staff
Sergeant Andre Patterson, Education Service Of-
ficer, the Community College of the Air Force was
established in 1972. It confers associate degrees
for programs of study relating to an Air Force
specialty. "An integration of military instruc-
tion and voluntary education provides this oppor-
tunity for prof essional and personal development,"
he said. The graduates were: TSGT Jerry Bird,
TSGT Kelly Ross, SGT Stephen Cochran, TSGT George
E. Draper, Sf!GT John Pundsack, MSGT Russel Prese-
ley, TSGT Charles Ralph,MSGT Joseph Spiteri, MSGT
Ernest Nichols, MSGT Harold Malloy, SSGT Marsha
Barnhart,SSGT Russel Freeman,MSGT Forest Wolfred,
Jr., MSGT Donald Drost and SSGT Ray Howell.
Help comes to Air Force PCS movers
Photo by J03 Gregory Belmore
WASHINGTON -- Air Force members who exceed
weight allowances on moves involving more than
one shipment will see a drop in excess weight
charges.
Brig. Gen. J. E. Griffith, the Air Force's Di-
rector of Transportation, directed a change in the
method used to compute excess weight charges ef-
fective October 1.
The general explained that previously the ser-
vice computed the member's cost on the last ship-
ment handled, normally unaccompanied baggage
moved by aircraft. Shipment by air is up to 50
percent more expensive than surface transporta-
tion.
Linder the new rules, members will pay for ex-
cess weight based upon the cheapest rate used to
complete the member's move, usually the shipment
from storage. Shipments include household goods,
unaccompanied baggage and storage.
More than 14,000 people paid $7.3 million for
overweight shipments last year. The general
said airmen first class were charged the most for
excess weight, averaging $290 per bill. In the
officer ranks, captains and majors were hit the
hardest with average bills of about $550.
General Griffith made the move after the Air
Force General Counsel determined that nothing
precluded the Air Force from changing its policy
to relieve some of the financial burden placed on
Air Force people who exceed property weight
limitations.
The general was quoted as saying, "We have
long advocated increases in weight allowances.
While we have been unsuccessful in obtaining in-
creased authorization, we discovered that we
could at least take this small step."
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