2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 17 - Education
Chapter 15 - Scholarships
§ 190i. The Bombardine Scholarship for Music

(a) There is hereby established the Bombardine Scholarship in Music, which scholarship shall be administered by the Virgin Islands Board of Education for the purpose of providing scholarship grants to students pursuing studies in music.

(b) Each year, one student from the District of St. Thomas/St. John and one from the District of St. Croix shall be awarded a grant of $1000 each for study during June through August.

(c) Applicants shall, at or before the end of June of each year, have had a minimum of one year study of band music, one year of the B (Flat) Euphonium (Bombardine), and have a music average within the “B” range.

(d) Scholarship grants shall be granted pursuant to this section to applicants who are bona fide residents of the Virgin Islands at the time of the application notwithstanding that they might have been living outside of the Virgin Islands temporarily while pursuing a course of study or while serving in the armed forces of the United States.

(e) Any person granted a scholarship under the provisions of this section shall be required as a prior condition to declare an interest in the application and perpetuation of the Wallace Style of Euphonium execution in Virgin Island music.

(f) A student who has earned an “A” grade at the end of the grant period may be considered for reapplication.