Clare and Robert Moore Scholarship Fund

The Clare and Robert Moore Scholarship Fund offers a yearly $1,000 scholarship to a student who is majoring in English and attending the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. The scholarship is open to both current full-time students and incoming first-year students at the Woman’s College at Notre Dame. Applicants must currently be English majors or be planning to major in English.

Notre Dame’s English program boasts a strong writing curriculum, with the option for students to design a program emphasizing writing or literature. The program also offers concentrations in creative nonfiction writing and drama.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Please click here to obtain a copy of application.

Please download the application, print it out, and then complete the application. Retain a copy for your records and then send the original copy to address on the final page of the application.

Questions may be sent to the Scholarship Committee via email:

appinfo@crmoorescholarship.org

Applications must be received no later than March 15th.

The applicant must meet certain requirements to be eligible for the scholarship. The student is either enrolled or planning to enroll as an English major.

Along with a completed scholarship

application, the applicant must submit:

documentation of her enrollment to Notre Dame
a letter of recommendation
an official copy of her transcript
an essay written for school; OR a copy of the essay submitted to Notre Dame; OR a personal statement that will allow the Scholarship Board to become better acquainted with her
copies of two years of personal tax returns (if applicable) OR copies of two years of her parents’ or legal guardians’ most recent tax returns with the Social Security numbers removed

All information submitted to the Scholarship Fund will be kept strictly confidential.

The student who has been awarded the scholarship will be required to reapply every year for the duration of her college career. She must maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher, submit a current transcript from the past college year and a letter from the college advisor attesting that she is still a student at Notre Dame and an English major.

Clare Moore was a lifelong teacher of English, Drama and Speech at various Maryland schools. She and her husband Robert strongly supported higher education, regarding it as a means not only of maximizing an individual’s potential but also as the catalyst for fostering a desire to contribute to the community and to the wider world.

Together, they raised seven well-educated children, each pursuing various fields of study while actively contributing to his or her chosen profession and respective community.

In honor of their parents’ memory and devotion to education and language, these descendants established this scholarship fund for a student attending Notre Dame, Clare’s alma mater.