DWI Scholarships

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SCHOLARSHIP REQUIREMENTS

Dear Graduating Senior:

We are pleased to invite you to submit your essay to our annual ELLIS LAW "Stop-DWI” SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. The overwhelming response from high school seniors to our prior annual programs and the warm expressions of gratitude we have received from Stop-DWI advocates has led to our decision to continue our program this year.

THE PROGRAM:
ELLIS LAW will award ten (10) scholarships of one-thousand dollars ($1,000.00) each to the high school seniors who submit winning essays based upon the topic set forth below.  Scholarships are limited to students residing in New York State, who plan to enroll in a full-time college program in the Fall of 2007 . 

In prior years, we have ask seniors to write an essay entitled "HOW TO STOP TEENAGE DRINKING AND DRIVING”.  This approach has yielded many creative and well reasoned ideas from our area teenagers.  This year, we are going to try something completely different.  Your project for this year is to help us develop future Ellis Law Stop-DWI Scholarship Programs, which will assist us in our efforts to help eradicate drunk driving in our communities. 

Thus, this year, your essay project will be entitled "WHAT CRITERIA I FEEL ELLIS LAW SHOULD BASE FUTURE STOP-DWI SCHOLARSHIPS UPON ... AND WHY".  We are looking to you, the youth of America, to help us formulate a plan to motivate future graduating classes to contribute toward this important cause.  We are open to your suggestions.  Your suggestions for how we should determine the winners of future scholarships do not have to be based solely upon essays.  They can be based upon ANYTHING you feel high school seniors can contribute toward this important cause.  We want creative, yet practical and realistic solutions to this very serious problem.

WHY WE ARE UNDERTAKING THIS PROGRAM:
As personal injury attorneys, we have seen the devastation that drunk driving can cause. We are dedicated to helping eradicate drunk driving by offering this and similar programs, donating to Stop-DWI organizations, and aggressively suing intoxicated drivers who injure our clients. We consider our efforts one small step toward making our community safer and we are pleased to invite you to join us. If our combined efforts can save just one family from the heartache caused by irresponsible drinking, our efforts will have been well-founded.

WHAT YOU MUST DO:
You must mail us a signed, typewritten essay of approximately 500 words together with the application below. Your submission must be postmarked by April 15, 2006 and addressed to:

ELLIS LAW, P.C.
2608 South Avenue
Wappingers Falls, NY 12601

Current clients of Ellis Law, their relatives, or relatives of Ellis Law employees are not eligible. Our Selection Committee will contact the winners by May 15, 2006. The scholarship check will be made jointly payable to each winner and the Finance Office of the college of his or her choice.

I look forward to having you join ELLIS LAW in this very important cause and wish you the best of success in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,
DENNIS GERARD ELLIS, President