Peary Wilemon-National Cotton Ginners' Scholarship

National Cotton Ginners' Association

The Peary Wilemon-National Cotton Ginners' Scholarship Foundation has the following goals:
•Encourage young people to join the cotton ginning industry, while equipping them for service through gin-related college studies and graduate research programs.
•Through the use of scholarship funding, establish a partnership with universities that will direct their teaching resources and research efforts toward gin industry priorities.
•Through systematic planning to define current and long-term priorities, engage the scholarship recipients, both student and university, to address specific industry research needs.
•Honor the dedicated industry service of Peary Wilemon, who was the mainstay at National Cotton Ginners Association for over 25 years.