Thursday, November 8, 2018

2019 Julian & Jan Hester Memorial Scholarship


Attention: High School Seniors Across Georgia! 

Community Bankers Association of Georgia (CBA) is pleased to announce the 2019 Julian & Jan Hester Memorial Scholarship.

What is the Julian & Jan Hester Memorial Scholarship? 

The goal of the Julian & Jan Hester Memorial Scholarship is to assist deserving high school seniors in their first year of college and to promote community banking. To compete, students must be sponsored by a local community bank, must complete an activity record expressing their leadership activity in school, write a short essay on community banking, provide teacher recommendations and an official high school transcript. Awards are based on academic merit and extracurricular participation, not financial need.

The scholarship is named after former community banker and long-time CBA Chief Executive Officer, the late Julian Hester and his late daughter, Jan Hester. Jan was a senior at the University of Georgia when she died in an auto accident on April 15, 1990. In addition to supporting community banking, this scholarship is an opportunity to pass on the positive qualities both Julian and Jan Hester exemplified to further the development of tomorrow's generations. 

For convenience, the application is broken into two packets: one to be completed by the student, and one to be completed by the student's bank and turned in together to CBA by the bank.

For more information visit the Hester Scholarship page, on our website or contact  Peake Wilson.