Lt. John J. Griffin/USS Emmons Memorial Scholarship

USS Emmons Association

Deadline Soon

About the Scholarship

Opens: 3/31/2025

Closes: 5/31/2025

Lt. John J. Griffin/USS Emmons Memorial Scholarship provides financial assistance for college or graduate school to descendants of crew members of the USS Emmons who were killed during World War II.

Win up to

$2,500

Essay Required: Yes
Need-Based: No
Merit-Based: No
Website

Requirements

This program is open to 1) direct lineal descendants of crew members aboard the USS Emmons when it was destroyed on April 6, 1945, during the battle of Okinawa; and 2) direct lineal descendants of siblings of childless crew members of the USS Emmons when it was lost.

Applicants must be enrolled or planning to enroll as fulltime undergraduate or graduate students.