Message from the Chief Administrative Officer
The work of the BCLS Foundation By Chad Rintoul Chief Administrative Officer
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s Chief Administrative Officer of the Association of BC Land Surveyors, it is also my privilege to serve as the Clerk of the BCLS Foundation. The Foundation has a mandate in support of the Anna Papove Memorial Library (which is housed at the Association office in Sidney) and to provide financial assistance to students who wish to pursue careers in land surveying by providing scholarships and bursaries through various post-secondary institutions in Canada. Currently the BCLS Foundation provides the following opportunities for students:
Award and Institution
Endowment Value
Annual Award Value
BCIT - BCLS Foundation Gerry Andrews Memorial Award
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation Ray Chapman Memorial Award
$40,000.00
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation W.N. Papove Sr. Memorial Award
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation G.M. Thomson Citizenship Award
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation Kenneth K. Wong Memorial Land Surveying Scholarship
*
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation Bursary
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
BCIT - BCLS Foundation Women in Geomatics Award
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
U of C - BCLS Foundation H.R. Goldfinch Award
$35,000.00
$2,500.00
*
$2,500.00
$35,000.00
$2,375.00
U of C - BCLS Foundation Kenneth K. Wong Memorial Land Surveying Scholarship UNB - BCLS Foundation Scholarship * Endowment value undeclared
Each of these awards is supported by an endowment in perpetuity that is invested and the interest generated is then used to fund each of the annual awards. As interest payments alone are not sufficient to fully fund the awards, the BCLS Foundation will ‘top up’ each award as required. Many of the awards are made possible because of generous contributions from the families of land surveyors or their estates. As an example, the Kenneth K. Wong Memorial Awards at BCIT and the University of Calgary are funded by an endowment with the Vancouver Foundation which has named the BCLS Foundation as the benefactor in support of these awards. As a result of these endowments being established directly through the estate of Mr. Wong, the endowment value is unknown to the BCLS Foundation, but from the interest generated annually we recognize that they are of a substantial value similar to the other endowments which support BCLS Foundation awards. The BCLS Foundation is particularly thankful to the families of those named in our memorial awards. Each year Bill Chapman, Bill Papove, Mike Thomson and Steve Wong personally attend ceremonies to meet the student recipients of these awards. The time and interest that these British the LINK | December 2019
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