Funds needed for Babcock-Carty scholarship

Students, staff, parents, friends and loved ones alike are still grieving over the loss of junior Bailey Carty.
Carty passed away on September 29 in an ATV accident. Carty’s mother, Stephanie Babcock, passed away three years prior in a car accident.
On February 13, 2012, a scholarship was created for Babcock, and after Carty’s passing, the scholarship was renamed to the Stephanie Babcock and Bailey Carty Memorial Pass-Through Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is awarded to one graduating PHS senior each year.
The applicant must be a graduating senior at PHS or may also be a non-traditional student as well and must be entering the medical field of any nature and must show proof of admittance to college. The applicant must submit, with the application form, a written essay regarding their desire to enter the medical field.
This pass-through currently does not have the required $5,000 needed to make the scholarship perpetual. If the account has $5,000 the interest will pay back every year which will keep the scholarship from depleting.
The current balance of the pass-through is $1,914.58. Right now, though, through March 31, 2016, the Lilly Scholarship is matching any endowment $0.50 on the dollar. If $3,000 were raised before March 31, the Lilly would match that at $1,5000, making the fund eligible to be perpetual.
Anyone interested in donating to the fund can do so at the Orange County Community Foundation or drop off a donation in the high school office that will be sent over to the foundation later this fall.
Keeping this scholarship around is a great way for PHS to honor and remember a loved student.

Story by: Brooklyn Dotts

Photo by: Keisha Levi