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The Robert O. Diedrick
Memorial Scholarship Fund

  1. There is established, by gift from Mrs. Melba L. Diedrick, a fund to be known as The Robert O. Diedrick Memorial Scholarship Fund ("The Fund").


  2. The purpose of the Fund is to provide annual Scholarships for the aid of deserving students in the field of Mineralogy and related earth sciences.


  3. Scholarships and expenses of administration are to be paid from the income of the Fund, leaving the principal intact. A primary scholarship in the amount of $1,500.00 shall be awarded each year. If the income accumulated in the Fund shall be sufficient to provide a second $1,500.00 scholarship at that time, a second scholarship shall be awarded.


  4. The awardee of the primary scholarship shall be:


    1. A student about to enter the junior or senior year of undergraduate study at either the University of California at Berkeley or at Stanford University,


    2. Majoring in and intending to pursue a career in earth sciences,


    3. Maintaining a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in required studies, and


    4. In need of financial aid.


  5. The awardee of any second scholarship in the same year shall be a graduate student in one of the above universities, who meets criteria b, c and d above.


  6. The Department of Earth Sciences (or equivalent) of the University of California at Berkeley and of Stanford University will be notified of the opportunity for such scholarships and will be asked to notify their students thereof, with instructions to send applications to the CFMS Scholarship Committee. The applications must be accompanied by a faculty member's recommendation and a satisfactory showing of the applicant's college academic record and financial need. The applications should be received two (2) months before the commencement of the school year to which the scholarship will apply.


  7. The Scholarship Committee shall review the applications and select the person or persons to whom the scholarship or scholarships for the ensuing year shall be awarded. In the selection of the awardees, the academic record of the applicants shall have primary importance. The decision of the Committee whether and to whom a scholarship shall be awarded will be final.

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