| Students grateful for scholarship aid BY DAVID E. BOHNERT UMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENT Three college students from the Baltimore-Washington Conference are preparing for their chosen vocations with the help of merit scholarships provided through the annual United Methodist Student Day offering Nov. 24. United Methodist Student Day is one of six special Sundays on which offerings are received to support the ministries of the United Methodist Church. Each year, the conference receives a portion of the offering to support merit scholars of its choice. Three students, one each from the Washington West, Cumberland-Hagerstown and Frederick districts have received merit scholarships for the 2002-2003 academic year.  Jason Jordan-Griffin is a freshman at Boston University. He is from Mt. Zion-Warren UMC, in Dickerson in the Washington West district. I am enjoying the college experience, said Jordan-Griffin, a communications major. I think it is very important for those who can do so to attend college to enhance their worldly perspective and further their educational goals.  Another merit scholarship winner is Stefanie Mills, a senior at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., from Calvary UMC in Frederick. She is an accounting major with a minor in studio art and art history.  Karen Grove, of Otterbein UMC in Hagerstown in the Cumberland-Hagerstown district, is also a merit scholarship recipient. A junior in physical therapy at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., she has received the merit scholarship for each of her three years of college. I greatly appreciate the scholarship, she said. It helps relieve the financial burden. For more information see www.umcgiving.org . | 
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