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From the Endowment Agreement’s Preamble
“The Wysham siblings benefited from a remarkable upbringing on the plains of the Punjab and in the Garhwal Himalayas, including receiving an outstanding education at Woodstock School. As a tribute to their parents and their own happy childhood in India years ago, they now want to give something back.”
The Wysham Scholarships at Kaplani School were originally established by the Wysham children to honor their parents, Donald and Dorothy Wysham, and to acknowledge the remarkable childhood they constructed for their children in the Himalayan foothills of India.
The Scholarships are to assist deserving young women with the cost of tuition and other expenses associated with attendance at the Kaplani School run by the Mussoorie Gramin Vikas Samiti (MGVS) in the vicinity of Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, India.
The Timberline Board determined that these scholarships furthered Timberline’s purposes, particularly in their function as a counterweight to school attendance patterns in the Garhwal Himalayas based on cultural perceptions that middle and high school education is less important for girls. In rural Garwhali contexts, like Kaplani’s, girls tend to truncate their school attendance at lower grade levels than do boys.
Scholarships awards are based primarily on financial need, plus indications of strong character and a commitment to others.
Donations to the Wysham Fund are placed in a permanently restricted endowment and the Scholarships are financed from earnings from this Fund. A formal endowment agreement that details the Scholarship’s mechanisms, and the motivations of the original donors, is available upon request. Among its terms is a requirement that investments be “socially responsible.”
Contributions to this Fund are tax-deductible.