CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Whataburger Family Foundation will award more than $110,000 in college scholarships to 57 Whataburger team members and their relatives for the fall 2008 semester — the most since the foundation's beginning in 2001.
The Whataburger Family Foundation is a support system funded by team members to help each other in times of need, crisis or family emergency. Each week, thousands of Whataburger team members contribute part of their salaries to the fund. The foundation has steadily increased the number of scholarships granted each year based on the growing amount of contributions received. The organization originally awarded eight scholarships per semester.
Scholarship recipients were chosen based on their academic performances, essays and recommendation letters from school officials. All scholarship recipients are corporate or franchise team members or their immediate family.
Full-time students will receive $2,000, and part-time students receive $1,000 for the semester to use at accredited two or four-year colleges, universities or vocational-technical schools.
