Grant to Fund More Bensalem Scholarships

Even more Bensalem Owls will start their college careers with scholarship money as part of a recent grant that the Bensalem Alumni Association received. 

In all, the association received a $10,000 grant from the Albert W. Bader Foundation, which will help the 27-year-old organization provide more scholarship money to deserving Bensalem High School graduates, according to Bensalem Alumni Association President and 1974 Bensalem graduate Ray Guim. 

The funds gave the association a shot in the arm "big time," Guim said. 

"This is all we do," Guim said. "We raise money for scholarships."

"The goal of it was to have the interest pay for the scholarships so we’d have an established foundation that would survive," he said. "This will be carrying on regardless."

In all, Bensalem officials, through the Albert W. Bader Foundation, gave out $100,000 in grants to various community organizations recently, including the First Tee Mentoring Program at Bensalem Country Club; replacement of playground equipment at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School and Faust Elementary School; and two new score boards for the Bensalem Ramblers. 

Prior to his death, Bader had owned the 18-hole golf course now owned by the township and known as Bensalem Township Country Club. The Foundation was established in tandem with Bader's will as a way to provide annual funds to sports-related activities in Bensalem.