ΣAM Foundation

• 90 Guller Young Scholars totaling $45,000 were awarded to new initiates, representing 32 chapters. 
• 138 endowed scholarships were distributed in 2016-17, the Foundation distributed $198,000 in endowed scholarships, including 12 scholarships to deserving graduate students.
• 5 Alvin Cohn UIFI scholarships/grants were awarded to attend the NIC’s Undergraduate Inter-Fraternity Institute program to SAM student leaders at Nebraska, UC San Diego, Washington State, Stephen F Austin and Miami (Ohio).
• The Hanno D. Mott USY and James Alexander NFTY Scholarships were awarded to deserving high school seniors with leadership in these groups.
• Alumni groups have scholarships available to children and grandchildren: including the Larry Berman/Beta Delta (San Jose ST) Scholarship, the Nu (Univ at Buffalo) Legacy Scholarship, and the Ron Rapchik/Mu Phi Scholarship.
• Special Memorial Scholarships include the Andy Dickson (Washington Univ StL) Scholarship, the Gary Gotlieb (Texas) Memorial Scholarship, the Jeff Levy (Texas) Memorial Scholarship, Alan Grushcow (Purdue) Memorial Scholarship, the Jonathan Schmidt (Delta Theta) and the Steven Dachinger (Michigan ST/Tulane) Memorial Scholarship.

 

An old man, going a lone highway,

came at the evening, cold and gray,

to a chasm vast and deep and wide;

the old man crossed in the twilight dim,

the sullen stream had no fear for him;

but he turned when safe on the other side

and built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,

"You are wasting your strength with building here;

your journey will end with the ending day,

you never again will pass this way;

you've crossed the chasm deep and wide;

why build you this bridge at evening tide?"

 

The builder lifted his old gray head,

"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,

"there followeth after me today,

a youth whose feet must pass this way;

this chasm that has been naught to me

to that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;

he, too, must cross in the twilight dim -

good friend, I am building this bridge for him."