Average Award:

$1500.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

This scholarship is intended to benefit a full-time JMU student who has demonstrated a capacity to make a contribution to the visual and/or performing arts community at JMU. Priority will be given to students from Patrick County, Virginia, from a single parent household.

If candidates are not available to meet the aforementioned criteria, qualified students from households with other parental composition and from other geographical areas will be considered. A student may be selected as a freshman and continue to receive the scholarship until graduation, as long as the selection criteria continues to be met. Recommendations may be made from the JMU visual and performing arts departments and the Coe family. Administration of the scholarship and the final selections will be done by the JMU Scholarship Office.

Average Award:

$450.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

Established through an initial contribution by Dr. Mary Latimer Cordner for outstanding members of the Stratford Players.

Average Award:

$450.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

Established by the Stratford Players in honor of Horace Burr.

Average Award:

$700.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

For dance students.

Average Award:

$500.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

Established by Dr. Frank and Mrs. Betty Snyder in memory of their son, Steven.  Steven graduated from JMU in 1979 with a B.B.A. in marketing.  He was an active and enthusiastic member of the Stratford Players, and therefore this award goes to students in the theater program.

Average Award:

$400.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

   Class Year:

Junior, Senior

Contact:

Scholarship History:

Established by Dr. Mary Latimer Cordner in November 1985.  Mary Latimer was born in Ridgetown, Ontario in 1895.  She left Canada at the age of 21 after teaching for two years on a one-room schoolhouse.  She earned her B.A. in French from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio in 1919.  She then studied at the Curry School of Expression in Boston and the University of London before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. In 1945 she joined the faculty of Madison College and taught here until her retirement in 1965, when she was named a professor emeritus.  She was the first woman to hold the position of Theater Director here.  In 1965 she married Blaine Cordner, a radio and Broadway actor.  She died at home in Fairfax, Virginia in May 1992.  She is the Latimer of Latimer-Shaeffer Theater.