- Residents of the 29-town Greater Hartford region
- Attending a four-year college/university
- Attending on a full-time basis
- Entering into sophomore, junior or senior year
- Achieved academic success (2.5 GPA or above)
- Demonstrated financial need
When long-time West Hartford resident Catharine Reid-Murphey passed away in 2019, her three children used her charitable trust to establish the Catharine W. Reid Scholarship Fund. The New Britain native set up the trust after the death of her husband of 54 years, John Reid, co-founder of the law firm Reid and Riege, P.C., in order to benefit the community at large, said their son, John Reid III. His mother raised her family with a strong emphasis on education. She was attending Skidmore College when she married, and despite the fact that the school would not let her live in the dorms to continue her education while her husband was overseas during World War II, she persisted and earned her degree. John III and his sisters, Leslie Price and Sarah Chisholm, share their mother’s belief in the value of education.