Bill and Molly Riome Masonic Memorial Scholarship

This page preserves the terms and public record of a scholarship once associated with Buffalo Park Lodge No. 44.

Historical program: The scholarship was discontinued in 2018 because funding was no longer available. No applications are accepted.

Scholarship outline

Name: Bill and Molly Riome Masonic Memorial Scholarship
Amount: $1,000, presented to one student each year while the program was active.
Eligibility: One student selected annually from Wainwright High School.
Qualifications: The student was required to be registered in a full-session, post-secondary program at a university, provincial institute of technology or recognized community college in Canada.
Selection basis: Financial need, together with the academic qualifications required by the post-secondary institution.

M.E. Rodgers presenting Ryan Thomas with the Bill and Molly Riome scholarship — W. Bro. M.E. Rodgers, Worshipful Master of Buffalo Park Lodge, presenting the scholarship to Ryan Thomas, a Grade 12 student at Wainwright High School.

Selection committee

The principal of Wainwright High School, or a designate.
A member of Buffalo Park Lodge No. 44.
One additional Wainwright High School representative mutually agreed upon by the first two committee members.

Presentation and duration

The original terms called for the scholarship to be presented at a public ceremony by a representative of Buffalo Park Lodge No. 44. The program was planned as an annual award for ten years, with its future reviewed every five years by a lodge committee.

The wording above has been converted to past tense because both the scholarship and the lodge have ended.