Criteria

• High School Senior
• Financial Need
• Majoring in Health or Social Services
• Concern for peers or community
• Passion for life and a compelling vision

Background

Connor Patrick Wollam developed A.L.L. leukemia at the age of 2 and underwent treatment at Seattle’s Children’s Hospital over the following 5 years, ending in a Bone Marrow transplant in 1999. Complications in the transplant took his life on Oct. 27, 1999 at the age of 7. Connor’s last year was spent largely at the Ronald McDonald house in Seattle where despite his suffering he lived life with great love and passion for the people and things around him. 2011 would have been Connor’s graduating class so we are excited to offer the first annual Connor Wollam Memorial Scholarship in 2011.

This scholarship is to be given to a graduating Senior going to a college or vocational school who intends to pursue a degree in Health or Social work. We are looking for individuals who have shown they have concern for their peers and others, who have shown character and passion in moving through his or her life in either overcoming obstacles or in movement toward their ellows.

Grades are not of concern in the consideration for this award as anyone accepted to a school is well worthy of it. Our aim is to aide in financial relief as young men and women begin living out the much larger story of their relationship to their world. If we were able to ask a single question of the recipients that we believe impacts growth and shapes character,  it is “What role do you believe human suffering plays in our character?” This is going to be the question that presents itself much in the field of human services and our response to it determines the kind of people we are in the midst of it.