The Scholarship Committee.....clueless, ignorant, and possibly racist.
Everyone knows that people who work behind the scenes at Taco Bell know how the sausage is made (Taco's are made)
After talking to an insider for Elks Scholarship committee, wow what insight into the ignorant discriminatory practices of the Elks club, its committee, and its key insiders.
Like all Elks Clubs, Sedona offers a scholarship for needy, future, college applicants.
A new committee member around 2015 demanded her friend's kid get it because she would be hurt because her sister got the scholarship in previous years, and she did not want her feelings hurt. Naturally this was a student from a well-to-do family and the opposite of needy.
This new committee member naturally had never been to college (seems like a basic of deciding college needs). She ignored advice from others AND then the following year, in what appears to be a joke, angled her buddies onto the committee to continue her discriminatory practices.
1. the voting system works with you casting a vote, one vote for your top choice, then a less-weighted vote for your 2nd choice, etc and down the list. THIS prejudice member CAST all five of her votes in a secret ballot for the friend's child. This assured her winning against the wishes of ALL other members on the committee.
This applicant was competing with a boy who had a poor mother who made 14k a year and he had to spend his entire high school career holding down a job to support the family. GIRL ONE, who won, had all the superficial club activities that go with privilege. BOY 2 who did not receive the scholarship could not join these clubs often due to cost AND also because he was putting food on the table for single mother household.
GIRL ONE, then rejected the scholarship because after being accepted to college, she decided to take a year off (a GAP year) and go to Europe instead.
What a pack of idiots....and when people tell you faux stories of pull yourself up by the bootstraps hero worship, they FORGET to mention that in that bootstrap journey you are competing with non college educated Sedona Elk's ignorant head committee members, who should defintiely not decide scholarships and probably not even be allowed to vote for President.
SO THAT IS WHAT your fees support. Let's wake up AND definitely NEVER congratulate yourself on the charity you provide SUPPORTING struggling girls who can't decide between college and strolls down the Paris streets over people WHO are first generation college applicants. Pathetic. .. read more