FOP Scholarships Make Lasting Difference for Members, Families

For Immediate Release
Monday, September 14, 2015

FOP SCHOLARSHIPS MAKE LASTING DIFFERENCE FOR MEMBERS, FAMILIES

At its September meeting, the Fraternal Order of Police, Crescent City Lodge No. 2, awarded scholarships to members and their families through the organization's Scholarship Program, which awards a total of $7,500 in scholarship funds each year.

Over the past 10 years, FOP Scholarship Committee Chairman Louis Shaw has overseen the disbursal of more than $50,000 in educational assistance to FOP members, their spouses, children and grandchildren.  At its September 2015 meeting, the FOP awarded the following scholarships:

FOP Attorney's Continuing Education $1,000 Scholarship was awarded to NOPD Sgt. Nicole Powell.  Powell is assigned to the NOPD's Investigative Services Bureau, and is attending Loyola University of New Orleans.  This scholarship is funded by donations from our FOP Legal Plan attorneys, many of whom are former New Orleans police officers.

Through the Robert E. Lampard, Jr. Memorial Scholarship, $500.00 was awarded to Meghan Brown, the granddaughter of retired NOPD Lieutenant John Jackson.  Meghan Brown attends Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge.  The Robert E. Lampard, Jr. Memorial Scholarship is awarded in honor of the late Robert E. Lampard, Jr., longtime National Trustee of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Through the J. Fant Taylor College Scholarship, named for a longtime benefactor of the FOP, two scholarships of $500.00 were awarded. Sgt. Omar Garcia, assigned to the NOPD Child Abuse Section, was awarded $500.  Garcia is attending the University of New Orleans.   NOPD Officer Valerie Keys was also awarded a $500 scholarship.  Keys, assigned to the NOPD Crime Laboratory, is working toward a degree from the University of Phoenix.

In order to assure that our younger members can also benefit from our scholarship program, the FOP Crescent City Lodge also awards two $500 High School / Grade School scholarships to children in grade school and high school.  This year's recipients are Anthony Ceravolo, son of FOP member Capt. William Ceravola (ret.), who attends Lyon Elementary School; and Rachal Bancroft, granddaughter of Arthur Bancroft, who retired from NOPD in 2006, is attending Belle Chasse Academy, located at the Naval Air Station in Belle Chasse and dedicated to the education of military-dependent children.

"Our Scholarship Program makes a lasting impact, not only on the recipients and their families but on our community," said Sgt. Walter Powers, Jr., president of the lodge.  "Education makes the NOPD stronger and improves New Orleans in myriad ways that last long after graduation ceremonies.  We're proud of our contributions to our city, and we're proud of all the scholarship recipients."

The Fraternal Order of Police, Crescent City Lodge, is the largest law enforcement organization associated with the New Orleans Police Department.  Our membership is made up of over 1,000 active law enforcement officers and nearly 900 retired officers.  Our mission is to promote and foster the enforcement of law and order; to improve the individual and collective proficiency of our members in the performance of their duties; to encourage fraternal, educational, charitable and social activities among law enforcement officers; to advocate and strive for uniform application of the civil service merit system for appointment and promotion; to support the improvement of the standard of living and working conditions of the law enforcement profession through every legal and ethical means available.

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