Return to NTA Home | Retrun to NTA HistoryWilliam F. Sullivan Memorial ScholarshipCurrent StatusWilliam F. Sullivan Scholarship is awarded to Textile Science majors in good academic standing at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth (formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University). Up to three annual merit-based awards of $250 are made.
BackgroundEstablished on the records of the Southeastern Massachusetts University Foundation in the spring of 1979 by gifts in memory of the late William F. Sullivan, this fund is intended to provide financial aid to students in good standing at the University who are majoring in the Textile Science and Textile Technology area who meet the qualifications listed below. William F. Sullivan headed the Northern Textile Association and its predecessor the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers from 1950 to 1979. A noted labor relations expert and prominent legal representative of the industry in Washington on trade matters, he was Vice Chairman of the Textile Advisory Council of the Textile Sciences Department at S.M.U. He was a strong advocate of the school's textile program and worked with unusual effectiveness to bring knowledge of the program to the attention of the textile industry leaders in the North. His support of programs and participation of the Textile Department of the College contributed significantly to the awareness, prestige and enhancement of the Textile Science program at S.M.U. At the time of his sudden death in the spring of 1979, he was representing the Northern Textile Association at a convention. The gifts to establish, and/or increase the Fund shall be invested with other funds of the Foundation so as to make income available annually to be awarded as scholarship aid. The investment income from the Fund shall be awarded annually to a student deemed scholastically or otherwise worthy by the Textile Scholarship Committee, with the approval of the Chairperson of the Department and Dean of the College. In any year in which investment income from the Fund fails to provide an amount sufficient to make the awards above, the prinicipal sum may be used to make up any deficiency. In any year in which the total investment income is not used, the income shall be added to the principal sum. The purposes and uses of the Fund may be revised for good and sufficient reasons pertaining to the Textile Program, on recommendation by the Scholarship Committee or faculty of the Textile Department, with the approval of the Chairperson of that Department, the Dean of the College and the Northern Textile Association William F. Sullivan Memorial Fund Committee. |