Meredith Holland Jones Scholarship Fund

Meredith Jones was an extremely dedicated and well-loved elementary school music teacher in Rockdale County, Georgia. She had that gift that makes a great teacher. She had the capacity to love each and every one of her students. She also had the determination that everything she did was going to be the best that it could be.

Sadly, Meredith left us too soon at 29 years of age after ending her 18-month battle with cancer on November 30. I had been Meredith's pastor for a time and had the honor of hearing her vows as she married her husband Chris. It was especially difficult to then go just a few years later to participate in her funeral service. But it is because of the special person that Meredith was that I want to help spread the word about one memorial opportunity that her family has established.

The Meredith Holland Jones Scholarship Fund will be set up at the University of Georgia, Meredith's alma mater, where she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees. She was doing work at Georgia toward her Ph.D. at the time of her death.

The scholarship will help supplement the cost for a rising Junior or Senior music major who wishes to pursue elementary school music education. The music department at the University is helping to set up the fund through the University of Georgia Foundation.

In order to contribute to the fund, make a check payable to "University of Georgia Foundation" and note "Meredith Jones Scholarship Fund" on the check. Mail checks to:

Dr. Mary Leglar - Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Univeristy of Georgia
250 River Rd.
Athens, GA 30602