It's well known that Colby long has been a school of opportunity. Two-thirds of students have campus jobs or receive financial aid, and about half of those receive scholarship grants. Less widely known are details about the hundreds of endowed funds, some very specifically targeted, that provide need-based grants for admitted students who meet the criteria of the donors. These are a few:

Neskowin South American Scholarship Fund:
A student from Spanish South America, preferably female.

Ludy and Pacy Levine Athletic Scholarship:
Male athletes from Waterville, Winslow, Fairfield or Oakland.

Harry B. Thomas Scholarship:
Males from Maine or Monmouth, N.J.

Margaret Torrey Crain Scholarship Fund:
Females from New England majoring in economics or government.

Lois Meserve Flye (Class of 1902) Scholarship Fund:
Language major from Lincoln County, Maine.

Raymond E. Lacombe Financial Aid Fund:
Catholic student from Waterville area with interest in chemistry.

William F. Watson Scholarship:
Non-drinking student.

William J. O'Donnell Scholarship Endowment:
Mother of small child.

Colby Foreign Mission Fund:
Children of missionaries.

Ventres Scholarship:
Descendants of ministers.

Frederick E. Camp Scholarship Fund:
Harpist or other music students.

Lillian B. Lodge Scholarship:
Orphans.