Sheldon Ware '38, of Milton, and Eliot House receives the Ames Scholarship for 1938, it was announced at a tea opening the Ames Room in Phillips Brooks House Wednesday.
Ware Vice President of Phillips Brooks House succeeds John B. Bowditch '37 as holder of the award established from Student Council funds in the fall of 1935 in memory of Richard G. Ames '34 and his brother, Henry R. '38.
Mrs. Ames, mother of the two boys, presented the Ames Room Wednesday as a meeting place for the Student Council, in memory of her two sons and their father Robert Russell Ames '07 who were lost at sea in 1935.
The Ames scholarship award is based on a fund of $300 set aside annually by the Student Council to be given to an upperclassman. This is the third time the award has been made. Richard B. Johnson '36, and C. Colmery Gibson '37 received the money two years ago.
The Student Council announced last night that Harry R. Harwood Jr. '30 and William Siegal '39 are the recipients of Student Council Scholarships in total of $100.
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