Scholarship Application Eligibility
DEADLINE: APPLY BELOW OR MAIL APPLICATION, TRANSCRIPT and ESSAY by August 11 each year. TO: Joseph.Martin@syensqo.com
- You must have a sponsor who is a MARPG member in good standing for at least one year.
- The applicant must be a full-time student* at an accredited college or university AND must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent U.S. Resident.
- *High school students and individuals entering their first semester of college are not eligible.
- The student may pursue a major in any curriculum, but preference is given to science, technology, or business majors.
- Student applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, or disability.
- Applicants must submit their most recent official academic transcript.
- Applicants must submit an essay outlining their career goals.
A sincere thank you to all of our Scholarship fund donors. Please take a minute to recognize their support.
Air Products
Burgess
Carlisle Construction Materials
Greene Tweed & Co.
HM Royal Inc.
Herman O. West Foundation
Home Rubber
Monmouth Rubber Corporation
Solvay Specialty Polymers
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
OUR SCHOLARSHIPS
Chris & Dick Grossman Memorial Scholarship
Chris was a trailblazer for women in sales in the Rubber Industry. When Union Carbide decided to sell rubber, Chris was hired for their sales position, and later was the top salesperson for DSM Copolymer. Chris was the only female chairperson for three different Rubber Groups of the American Chemical Society at the time .
Dick had an interesting career working for Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., Montedison, Polymer Services Inc., Polysar Corp. and the Hammond Group. Graduating from Cornell, attended Harvard University for a time, delaying his education to serve in Korea . Eventually graduating from Purdue University with his doctorate in chemistry. Dick held many patents and was an active member of Polymer Modifiers and Additives Division of the Society of Polymer Engineers. He served as a consultant and was an witness in cases involving technical aspects of polymers including a high profile case regarding hanging chads created by election equipment in Florida in 2000 . Dick consulted in the Morton Thiokol, NASA Challenger case, were a low temperature polymer should have been used for the O-rings booster rocket joints.
Chris & Dick held positions with the New York, Philadelphia and MARPG.
Don Slowicki Memorial Scholarship
Don Slowicki was with Home Rubber Company, a local specialty rubber manufacturer that has been in business since 1881. Don had been with Home Rubber since 1997 and was a significant contributor to the company’s success through his passing in 2012. Don was active in both the Philadelpha Rubber Group and the MARPG moving through the chairs and supporting educational programs and assorted tours at Home Rubber.
This Scholarship recognizes his dedication to education.
Dan Hertz Memorial Scholarship
Dan Hertz founded Seals Eastern Inc. in 1959 and was active throughout his more than six-decade career in the rubber industry, serving a term as chair of the ACS Rubber Division, and being chosen as the 2007 Rubber & Plastics News Rubber Industry Executive of the Year. Dan received the Rubber Division’s Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award; was granted an honorary degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology; earned five patents; published more than 60 articles on elastomers and sealing concepts; was awarded the Raymond Hopp Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in New Jersey Manufacturing.
Dan considered himself a self-educated scientist receiving much of his education through Rubber Division Courses, attending conferences and reading hundreds of science and technology books in libraries.
Dan and Seals Eastern are supporters of the Rubber Group’s Educational Programs. Dan’s Legacy will live on through his Memorial Scholarship.
OUR HISTORY
The MidAtlantic Rubber & Plastics Group, part of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society, is a technically oriented professional organization. It promotes personal relationships among those in education, polymer manufacture, suppliers of raw materials and producers of rubber products. The Group provides a regional network that aids in technical problem solving.
Our antecedents, the Philadelphia Rubber Group (founded 1945) and the New York Rubber Group (founded 1928), were similarly corporate members of the ACS Rubber Division with many mutual members. In 2005, merger began with formation of a joint Board of Directors. It was completed in 2006 with the MARPG, Inc. registered as a nonprofit corporation of Delaware.