Scholarships
FOL Scholarships 2025 Applications are Now Open!
Submissions due April 21, 2025 to FOL by mail or email
Deadline: Completed scholarship applications must be postmarked or received by email by April 21, 2025. Please mail your completed application to: Friends of the Coronado Public Library, Attention Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 180172, Coronado, CA 92178-0172 OR Submit by email to info@CoronadoFOL.org Subject: FOL 2025 Scholarship Committee by midnight, April 21, 2025
Every year The Friends of the Coronado Public Library sponsors four scholarships for graduating high school seniors. On Monday, June 9th, 2025 we will announce and celebrate the graduating seniors in the class of 2025
The Wilf & Ruth Seaman Scholarship - $2,000
Wilf Seaman was the principal of Coronado High School during the 1950s and 1960s. He was a founder and Past President of the Friends of the Coronado Public Library (FOL), and a much beloved volunteer for many years. Ruth Seaman was a kindergarten teacher with the Coronado School District, ran a preschool, and was a Friends of the Coronado Public Library volunteer for many years.
The Susan Stark Scholarship - $2,000
Susan Stark was a volunteer at the Second Hand Prose bookstore, run by the Friends of the Coronado Public Library (FOL), from 2008 until her death in September 2015. A Coronado High School graduate, Susan was devoted to her family, was an avid reader, and a world traveler.
The Jim and Bette Sherman Fine Arts Scholarship - $2,000 (COSA) & $2,000 (CHS)
Bette and Jim Sherman are longtime residents of Coronado. Bette, an artist, has brought her love of art to local children by funding art lessons for them at the library (the Second Saturday Art classes). Two Jim and Bette Sherman Fine Arts Scholarships will be awarded, both in the amount of $2,000. One will be awarded to a student with a passion for the fine arts who is a student of COSA, and the other will be awarded to a student with a passion for the fine arts who is enrolled in the Coronado High School regular curriculum. For purposes of these scholarships, the term “fine arts” shall mean items of visual beauty but shall specifically exclude film, video digital media.
Congratulations to the
2024 High School Scholarship Recipients!
Left to right: Emi Hitson; (Jim and Bette Sherman Fine Arts Scholarship: Fine Arts); Juniper Clark (Jim and Bette Sherman Fine Arts Scholarship: COSA); Olivia Chavez (Susan Stark scholarship); and, Gabriel Langevin (Wilf & Ruth Seaman Scholarship). All scholarship awardees are Coronado High School graduating seniors.
Congratulations to the
2023 High School Scholarship Recipients!
