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AABE William Grant Pinkard Scholarship
The Legacy of William Grant Pinkard II
The William Grant Pinkard Scholarship Fund was named after a member of the Kansas-Missouri Chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) who best exemplified the organization’s purpose and goals. William Grant Pinkard, II was a dedicated and active member.
Pinkard was manager of Unit 2 of Kansas City Power & Light Company’s (KCP&L) LaCygne Generating Station. Pinkard joined KCP&L in 1966 as a plant helper. He was promoted to Shift Foreman in 1979 at KCP&L’s Hawthorn Generating Station. In 1985, he became supervisor of Operations Training and was again promoted in 1985 to Superintendent of Operations. His most recent promotion to United Manager came in 1990.
Above all, Pinkard understood the value of education. In fact, upon his untimely death in 1992, he was enrolled in an executive MBA Program at Rockhurst University.
Pinkard’s efforts in continuing his education typifies the purpose of AABE as it relates to college education. This is why the Kansas-Missouri chapter elected to create a scholarship fund in his honor.
This fund was established to provide educational scholarships to undergraduate college students to help increase the number of underrepresented minorities such as, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans and Pacific Islanders, in energy related fields.
Eligibility:
- Have at a minimum a G PA of 3.0 (B) on a 4.0 scale or higher.
- Be of an underrepresented social population such as African-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American or Pacific Islander.
- Live in one of the following 15 counties comprising the Kansas City metropolitan area: Jackson, Clay, Platte, Johnson, Buchanan, Cass, Lafayette, Boone in Missouri and Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Douglas, Shawnee, Jefferson and Riley in Kansas.
- Major in Engineering, Business, Computer or Physical Science.
- These scholarships will be supplemental for students who have already earned athletic and/or academic scholarships.
Amount:
The award shall be $1,500 per semester payable to the student and the institution and dispersed in two payments of $1,500 in August and January. Awards of $750 per semester will be issued to community college students. A William Grant Pinkard Scholar may renew the scholarship for a second year provided documentation that all scholarship guidelines and criteria have been sustained.
Deadline:
April 1
Document:
Contact:
Allyson Weber aweber@gkccf.org 816-627-3405
