PRESS RELEASE - SEPTEMBER 3, 2001

RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION SEEKS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS

PROVIDENCE, RI (September 3, 2001) - Planning to attend law school? The Rhode Island Bar Foundation is seeking applications for its Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship.

The Bar Foundation will award a scholarship of $10,000 to a Rhode Island resident who will enroll as a first-year student in an American Bar Association accredited law school for the academic year beginning September 2001. The scholarship is for the first year of law school only and non-renewable.

The scholarship is awarded based on scholastic achievement, financial need and good character without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.

The application deadline is March 12, 2002. For application forms, call the Bar Foundation at (401) 421-6541 or write to the office at 115 Cedar St., Providence, RI 02903

In the past twelve years, the Bar Foundation has awarded over $70,000 to law students.

The Rhode Island Bar Foundation is the charitable arm of the Rhode Island Bar Association. The scholarship program received substantial funding from the Horace A. Kimball and S. Ella Kimball Foundation, and supplemental funding from the Providence Journal in honor of the late Thomas F. Black, Jr. Black was known for his impressive ability as a lawyer and banker, his deeply rooted legal scholarship, and his notable participation in civic and charitable causes.