MAURER MEALS / UMF DINING SERVICES
MEAL PLAN SCHOLARSHIP ESSAY GUIDELINES
In 2005, Justin Maurer, a 2004 high honors graduate of the UMF Community Health
Program, died in a motorcycle accident. His parents and friends established a scholarship
in his memory for a third or fourth year Community Health major. The Maurer Meals
Project was formed: “To raise money for the Justin A. Maurer Memorial Scholarship at
UMF while raising awareness of activities necessary to improve local community health
nutritionally, economically, environmentally and spiritually.” The main focus of the
project has been Maurer Meals, occurring annually the weekend following Columbus
Day weekend. More about Justin, Maurer Meals, the Memorial Scholarship and the
Project goals can be found at Maurer Meals.com.
UMF Dining Services has been involved in both buying local and sustainable activities
for a long time. UMF Dining Services has very generously offered The Maurer Meals
Project two fifty meal plan scholarships each year to be used in a way that will 1) benefit
deserving UMF commuter students and, 2) further the goals of improving community
health through increasing awareness of the benefits of using locally produced and
sustainably produced foods.
The Project Steering Committee has decided to award these food plan scholarships in the
following manner:
1) A UMF commuter student will submit a 500 – 1,000 word essay addressing the
following:
A) Locally produced and sustainably produced foods – why it matters
B) What I have done to improve my community’s health and well being
(for purposes of this essay “community” will have a very broad meaning –
any group or groups of people with common interests).
2) Separately, but concurrently, the student will submit a paragraph or two on the
topic: “Why the meal plan scholarship will be financially meaningful to me”.
Both essays will be submitted via email to Denise Boothby by March 29, 2013
at denise.boothby@maine.edu subject heading: meals plan scholarship essays
submission.
Zero, one, or two 50 meal plan scholarships will be awarded in April, 2013 for
use ONLY during the 2013-2014 school year.
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