Deadline: February 2, 2027
Status: Currently Closed
Award Amount: $3,000 - $4,000
Number of Awards: 2-5
Selection Criteria:
- Graduating high school seniors from Bloomfield High School
- Planning to attend a two- or four-year college/university
- Achieved academic success (2.5 GPA or above)
- Service to the community beyond Bloomfield High School's service requirement
- Demonstrated financial need
Joan Wister created this fund in 2005 to honor her husband, who passed away in 2003. Lewis Wynne Wister taught English and Latin at the South Kent School before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and then earning a master’s degree in English literature from Harvard; he returned to the South Kent School as its headmaster from 1955 to 1969. Joan, who served in the Womens Army Corps in World War II, passed away in 2017. The Wisters moved to the Seabury Retirement Community around 2001.