The
Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship - Application Deadline Extended to June 13, 2008
The Alabama Humanities Foundation
awards the Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarships
to Alabama teachers looking to further
their professional development through
this $1,000 award that helps them
attend a seminar or institute, purchase
classroom materials, or create a program
that enhances their students’
understanding of history and civics.
Recipients are chosen from a pool
of applicants based on their proposed
spending of the scholarship money
to improve their teaching abilities
and create a more effective classroom
environment.
The Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship
was created in memory of the late
Jenice Riley, daughter of Alabama
governor Bob Riley and his wife Patsy,
for her extraordinary commitment to
enhancing the quality of education
in Alabama. Jenice Riley’s passion
for teaching kindergarten infused
her students with creativity and a
desire to learn. She inspired her
students, encouraged parents to get
involved in their children’s
education, and actively promoted better
educational programs and disciplines
within her community. AHF is honored
to present this scholarship each year
in her memory.
AHF is currently accepting
applications for the 2008 Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship. Download the following forms to apply.
Recipients of the 2007 Jenice Riley Memorial
Scholarship
• Gigi Hankins - 4th Grade Teacher at Wetumpka Elementary, Wetumpka
Hankins helped fourth graders at Wetumpka Intermediate better understand and appreciate Alabama History. Hankins wrote a play entitled A Day at the Library that was be performed by her students. She used her scholarship money to bring the production to other schools in Elmore County.
"This has been such a wonderful experience for the students and they have learned and grown not only in knowledge about Alabama's history but in confidence and self-esteem. We would not have been able to do so many of the "little things" that made this play even more realistic and true to history if it had not been for the funding from the Jenice Riley Scholarship. We will never be able to count just how many lives have been touched, but we know that our students will forever carry this experience with them."
-Gigi Hankins
• Melanie
Falconer and Claire Hoffman
- 4th Grade Teachers at Thompson Intermediate,
Alabaster
Falconer and Hoffman used their
scholarship money to help their students
become junior archaeologists and discover
how artifacts left by Native Americans
are clues to lives of the earliest
inhabitants of our state.
• Sarah
R. Hartman - 5th Grade
Teacher at Shiloh Elementary, Sardis
Hartman used her scholarship
money at Shiloh Elementary to study
important historical figures with
her students, teaching them to become
leaders by mirroring the good character
and strong citizenship of the role
models they study.
• Jane
Johnson - 3-5th Grade
Teacher at Western Heights Elementary,
Eufaula
Johnson used her scholarship
money to premier “Eufaula’s
Living Wax Museum” as part of
this year’s Eufaula Pilgrimage.
Students will research important historical
figures and design costumes and prepare
speeches for the living wax museum.
• Libbie
Orbison - Kindergarten
Teacher at Riverton Elementary, Huntsville
Orbison purchased costumes
of early American history figures
and modern-day community helpers.
The costumes allowed Orbison to
better illustrate for her students
the life of early Americans, and the
modern-day costumes showed them
the importance civic responsibility
and pride.
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