![An application for the Edgar A. Smith Scholarship, as well as an announcement with details.](https://assets.lakelandchp.app/item-03274_137bcd-003.png)
An application for the Edgar A. Smith Scholarship, as well as an announcement with details.
Edgar A. Smith Scholarship document; typed on a typewriter; scholarship established before invention of computers. The scholarship was organized by Lakeland High school last class, but they wanted to include other schools. They traveled to Upper Marlboro Legal Library to research and structure the scholarship, eventually getting it incorporated. Each year, the committee reviewed applications with the goal to distribute $2,000 to high school students for college costs; recipients were from the towns of Fairmont Heights, Bowie, Laurel, and Muirkirk. School desegregation impacted the group of recipients.