The Letter of the League

Salvete, OSCLers!

      After quite a hiatus on this platform of social media, we have returned! We thank you all for yet another wonderful OJCL Convention this past Spring, and we hope that those of you venturing all the way to Trinity University this week for the NJCL Convention have an amazing time as well.
   Whether you are living it up in Texas this week or carrying the torch a little closer to home, we wish you safe travels & a great summer!

P.S. The latest Letter of the League will be posted shortly!

Letter of the League

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OSCL Book Award

The OSCL book award recognizes a graduating senior in the OJCL who has been dedicated to extending the friendly hand of JCL through leadership, friendship, or service. A prize of $150 will be given to the student whom the OSCL board feels best exemplifies these traits. The award is *not* limited to those pursuing Classics at the university level.  Please complete the short answer essays below and submit it to sclboard@ojcl.org by April 11th, 2014. Applicants will be informed of the award decision by May 16th, 2014.

Name:

High School and graduation year:

University you are going to attend (or universities you're still deciding between):

Expected major(s)/minor(s): 

Number of state conventions:

Number of national Conventions:

Please describe your leadership experience in the JCL. How have you contributed to your club or to the OJCL as a whole?

How has the JCL impacted you? What have you learned from the JCL experience?

What makes you stand out?

OJCL 2014

Thank you so much to all of the wonderful SCLers who came to Columbus for our annual convention! It was a huge success, and the SCL was as omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and indispensible as ever!
We'll be posting profiles for each of our new executive board members soon, so keep following this blog!

Ps. Happy Ides of March!!

12 days until Convention!

Register!

Have you registered for convention yet? 

You should! It takes less than 10 minutes and signs you up for one of the greatest weekends of your life! Get excited, OSCL!!

http://ojcl.org/?page_id=779

Scholarships!

Applying to college? In high school and planning to go to college? Any kind of college thing ever?

Latin Student? Good.

Have I got something here for you.



It's a pain to sift through college website after college website trying to find information about degree programs, majors, scholarships, applications... Its rough. I know.

The OSCL decided to lend a friendly hand. We (with some help from a few invaluable sources) compiled a list of all the schools in Ohio that offer scholarships to their Latin, Greek, and classics students, as well as several outside organizations that offer classics scholarships. Most, if not all of these, are available to high school seniors entering college in the coming fall.

So why not take a chance? Follow your passion. You could get money for school for it. 



Here we go!


First of all, here is a link to the Ohio Classical Conference's list of colleges and universities in Ohio that have classics programs. (I owe a lot to the OCC for this blog post. The idea, as well as a few points in the right direction, came from their website. Round of applause for you, you wonderful classicists.)


The following are the scholarships offered by universities on that list. I've made it so you can click on the purplish words, and it'll take you to the applicable website. You're welcome.

In alphabetical order:

Bowling Green State University:

Caroline Nielsen Award in Classics 

      Given to a junior or senior in the university (not necessarily a classics major!) who is knowledgable about and interested in classics.

Case Western Reserve University:
Three departmental awards: 
The Crawford Summer Scholarship to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
The Abraham Lincoln Fuller Prizes for excellence in the study of Greek or Latin
The Emma Maud Perkins Prize for excellence in classical studies

CWRU also offers a group acting contest for high school students, for which there are prizes. 

University of Cincinnati:

Semple Scholarship
     A special program for classics students which pays most (if not all) of tuition. 

John Carroll University:

Castellano Scholarship

This is a 4 year, full tuition scholarship, for incoming freshman who have studied Latin and intend to major in Classical Languages. 

Miami University:

  

A number of departmental awards:

Bishop Prize in Latin, in honor of Robert H. Bishop II, by alumni

Bishop-Elliott Prize in Classical Humanities, in memory of Robert H. Bishop II, class of 1831, and Professor Charles Elliott

Elliott Prize in Greek, in memory of Professor Charles Elliott, by John B. Smith, class of 1858

Henry Montgomery Classics Scholarship

Henry Montgomery Travel Award

Marilyn Wade-Duff Scholarship

Miami is also home to the American Classical League offices, so thats pretty cool.


Oberlin College:

The John J. Winkler Memorial Prize

This prize is actually open to all undergrad and graduate students in North America, not just students at Oberlin. The $1,500 prize is for the best paper that explores 'any risky or marginal field of classical studies'. Cool.

Oberlin also runs a pretty cool classics tumblr, and they took a bust of Homer around campus on a hilarious journey, which is definitely worth looking at.

Ohio State University: 

David J. Neustadt Scholarship Fund in Greek and Latin

          This award is given to an undergraduate student studying Latin or Greek. 

Rebecca Lucile Cornetet Scholarship

A merit-based scholarship support to outstanding majors in Greek or Latin, with preference for students of Latin.

OSU also offers specific classics scholarships for study abroad, graduate students, and papers. Check those out here.

Wright State University:

The Janice J. Gabbert Classics Scholarship

The William and Cynthia King Endowed Scholarship

Both scholarships are open to all classics majors. Amounts TBD, but it's usually between $500 and $1,000.

If I linked something wrong, gave bad information, forgot something, added something I shouldn't have, etc. PLEASE let me know. I want this to be accurate! Especially if I overlooked any colleges!

Onto outside scholarships! 

These are given out by different organizations that promote the classics. 

These two are more Ohio centered:

The Ohio Classical Conference Scholarship for Prospective Latin Teachers

         -This $1500 scholarship is awarded to a student actively taking steps to a career in teaching Latin. The student must be either a graduate of an Ohio high school, or attending an Ohio college.

The Ohio Classical Conference Scholarship for the Study of Latin or Greek

  -This $1,500 scholarship is given to an Ohio high school senior who plans to study Latin or Greek. The award will be continued through 3 years if the requirements are continuously fulfilled.

Have I mentioned that I love the OCC? Because I do. 

The National Junior Classical League offers 11 scholarships that can be used at any university. Awesome.

They are as follows: 

Belle Gould NJCL Scholarship: $1,500

Jessie Chambers NJCL Scholarship:$1,500

Rhea Miller NJCL Scholarship:$1,500

Red & Rhea Miller NJCL Scholarship:$1,500

Sr. Jeanette Plante Scholarship:$1,500

Renata Motiu Scholarship:$1,200

Margaret & Eugene Halligan NJCL Scholarship:$1,500

Maureen O'Donnell NJCL Scholarship:$1,500

Susan and Dennis Webb Scholarship:$2,500

Chester Tylinski Scholarship:$1,250

Doris L. Kays Scholarship:$1,500

and are all based on financial need, JCL service at local, state, and national levels, academic record, recommendations from teachers, principals, counselors, and other adults, and special consideration is given to those applicants who intend to teach Latin, Greek, or the Classical Humanities.

(The link for all of them is the same, so I'll just link to it here.)

Contests:

The National Latin Exam offers prizes to exemplary students. 

The Medusa Exam tests students on their knowledge of mythology, and offers several prizes. 

Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest offers a $250 prize. 

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South also holds a translation contest. 

The Vergilian Society also has a translation contest with a cash prize. 

Not going to school in Ohio? The fantastic people at the OCC have done yet another awesome thing. There is a list on their web page of colleges across the U.S. that offer classics scholarships, or have exceptional departments. Definitely worth a look. 

So there we have it. A guide to the classics scholarships available in the great state of Ohio. Don't say I never did nothing for you. 

*Again, PLEASE let me know if you find any kind of errors, including omissions, or other sources of scholarships.*

Acknowledgments to the OCC, Larry Dean, Bob White, Stergios Lazos, and the rest of the OSCL board for their help on this.  

Happy Birthday, Rome!

Happy birthday to the favorite city of the OSCL!
All kinds of crazy Roman fun to do today.
I made a cake. How did you or your school celebrate?

Also, RIP Remus. (Gotta give him a shout out too.)

Meet OSCL Editor Maddie Briner!

Name: Maddie Briner

College: University of Tennessee 2016

SCL Position: Editor

Goals/Excitements: I write this here blog and publish the daily Convention Ears at conventions. I want to make you laugh, as well as inform you and show you all the super cool stuff that the SCL is doing!

Favorite Dinosaur: Brontosaurus

Meet OSCL Historian Alex Might!

Name: Alex Might

College: New York University, class of 2017

SCL Position: Historian

Goals and excitements for the SCL: I hope to help the SCL network and gain as many members as possible to help us grow! I can't wait for NJCL Convention at UNLV!

Other super cool things about Alex: I've been tumbling (the gymnastics and the clumsy kind) since I was ten years old!

Meet OSCL Parliamentarian Bobby McDonald!

Name: Bobby McDonald

College and grad year: Either The University of Cincinnati or the University of Kentucky, graduating (hopefully!) in 2017.

SCL Position: Parliamentarian

Goals and excitements for the SCL: Making the Constitution and By-Laws more readily available to the SCL, publicizing the offices and elections in advance to state convention.

Favorite dinosaur: Apatosaurus (Littlefoot from The Land Before Time is one of them!)

Other super cool things about Bobby: I like Italian food and football, basketball, and soccer! My favorite teams are, respectively, the Bengals, the Kentucky Wildcats, and Bayern Munich!

Meet OSCL Secretary Mitra Jouhari!

Name: Mitra Jouhari

School: The Ohio State University, 2015

Position: Secretary

Goals/Excitements: I hope to make SCL even more fun than it already is, which is saying something. I want to amp up the presence on social media and hopefully keep a few people mildly entertained with some sick jokez (yeah, check out that 'z' in 'jokes.' Can you tell I'm super hip? Can you? Please say yes.). Also I'm hoping to keep you guys entertained with sick BEATZ because I like to think of the SCL as a launching point for my rap career. Okay, I'll stop now. Moral of the story: I'm really excited about being on the board.

Favorite Dinosaur: Apparently it's an Apatosaurus. I had to look up what dinosaur Littlefoot from the Land Before Time movies was. He's an Apatosaurus, according to the Wikipedia gods.

Other super cool things about Mitra: I'm super into acting! I do improv comedy, I sing at stuff (vague), do musicals (vague), write plays/sketch comedy, and I'm stage managing the national tour of a musical right now. I really want to be a writer/actor, hopefully for The Daily Show or for something like Parks and Rec. Hopefully I'll be on the 87th season of SNL one day. 

Meet OSCL Treasurer Michelle Martinez!

Name: Michelle Martinez

College: University of Cincinnati 2015

SCL Position: Treasurer, Head of the Unofficial Committee of Laughs and Giggles

Goals and excitements: To help the OSCL become an organized and solvent organization. Hoping to facilitate a Paypal service to streamline Convention registration, and get our assets in order. Currently I am continuing the work on bringing the binder to a state of nirvana with his dear ally Excel. Think of the binder as Caesar, and Excel as Labienus, his beloved lieutenant.
In general, avoiding all jankyness and ratchet situations.

Favorite 90's pop artist: Spice Girls and Destiny's Child.

Meet OSCL Vice President Sam Buck!

Sam Buck  

University of Chicago 2016 

OSCL Vice President 

Goals and excitements for the SCL:  I hope to expand membership as well as send quarterly updates about the goings on of the SCL and other information including registration info so that more people are informed and getting the most out of their SCL experience.  I am also super excited to work with Bobby on updating our constitution and by-laws as well as making those documents accessible to everyone. 

Cool Facts about Sam: I compulsively knit and i want to be an elementary school teacher when I grow up! Nothing else about me is cool. 

Meet OSCL President Logan Nagel!

Logan Nagel

University of Cincinnati, Class of 2016

SCL President

Goals and Excitements for the SCL: I hope to facilitate the efforts of the other SCL officers and do a complete logistical overhaul of our organization.

Favorite Dinosaur: Lady Gaga

Welcome!

Welcome to the official blog of the Ohio Senior Classical League. We are a bunch of Latin enthusiast college students who assist the Junior Classical League with our omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnisarcastic leadership. This blogs' main purpose will be to keep everyone in the SCL up to date on what we're working on year round, rather than just the 9 days we're all at conventions, as well as to publicize our organization. Hopefully that might even end up being mildly entertaining for you to read. But no promises. The 2013-2014 exec board is quite excited for this year, and we hope you are too!