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Georgia Pogue Personal Achievement Award
Co-Sponsored by Council PTA and the Pogue Family
Without interruption, Mt. Lebanon Council PTA has awarded an annual scholarship to a deserving senior since our inception 75 years ago.
In 1993 Council PTA voted to annually recognize seven seniors, seven being symbolic of our neighborhood elementary schools. Each recipient receives $500 toward college expenses.
In 1997 Council changed the name of the scholarship in honor of a guidance counselor at Mt. Lebanon High School, Georgia Pogue. Georgia was a beloved and talented guidance counselor who championed all students at Mt. Lebanon. Upon her untimely death, her family bequeathed $25,000 to the PTA Scholarship fund. PTA renamed the fund the Georgia Pogue Personal Achievement Award in her memory.
Nominated by high school administrators, faculty, and/or staff, students must meet the following criteria:
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Have significantly improved their academic performance during their high school career, and/or
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Are all-around good citizens or solid students, and/or
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Are "always there," dependable at doing tasks, but are not necessarily in the limelight.
The Scholarship Committee consists of six members, including the Council PTA president and one Council member-at-large, Council PTA past president, the High School PTSA president (none of whom may have a senior student), a high school guidance counselor and the high school principal or his/her designee (usually a high school teacher). If any of the PTA representatives on the committee has a senior, he/she must designate a substitute for the committee.
This effort is coordinated with our Supervisor of Guidance, who distributes the forms through intra-office mail, thus making the process available to all high school employees who wish to nominate a student.
The seven scholarship recipients are presented with their awards at the High School Awards Assembly and the May Council PTA meeting to recognize their achievements.
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