History
The Carlisle High School Alumni Association was reorganized in 2000 to promote goodwill among CHS graduates and others that attended our school over the years. Since reorganizing, the Alumni Association has provided a college scholarship to a deserving graduating senior each year. We’re proud to support our graduates and want to do more. It is the vision of the Alumni Association that our scholarship activities grow into one or more endowed, perpetual funds so that we may continue to support our students with expanded benefits. To this end, it was determined that a formal scholarship foundation would best serve the needs.
In Spring 2004, after much hard work and determination, the Alumni Association was successful in founding a non-profit organization dedicated to fulfilling our goals. This organization is known as the Carlisle Scholarship Foundation, Inc. While we maintain the scholarship funds of the Alumni Association, our charter also allows us to extend our services to anyone wanting to establish scholarship funds for students of Carlisle High School. You can read our Articles of Incorporation here.
The Carlisle Scholarship Foundation, Inc. receives it’s direction from a Board of Directors elected by the board of the CHS Alumni Association, and is tasked with the responsibility of maintaining the present scholarship programs, as well as cultivating new opportunities and partnerships. Our complete set of By-Laws are available for download here.
As a tax-exempt organization with 501(c)3 status, the Foundation can act as a tax sheltered beneficiary for private citizens as well as corporate entities. Anyone wishing to contribute to an existing scholarship fund may do so easily by contributing to our Foundation. Anyone wishing to establish new, dedicated endowments of their own, may do so through our Foundation as well. The Carlisle Scholarship Foundation, Inc., exists to act as an umbrella organization to manage and maintain scholarships for multiple purposes.
Board of Directors
President
Sharon Murray Williams
Secretary/Treasurer
Marla Ward Williams
Board Positions 1 – 2; 2020-2022
1. Chuck Lewis
2. Kim Murray Mitchell
Board Positions 3 – 4; 2018-2020
3. Bonnie Heiss Herring
4. Marty Buron
Board Positions 5 -7 ; 2019-2021
5. Nancy Kittler
6. Kathy Bennett Perkins
7. Robin Waddell Wing
Ex-Officio
Superintendent of Carlisle Schools
William Rountree
High School Counselor
Andrea Fortner