Newhouse LA students are eligible to receive the merit based Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Award (see below) and the needs based Newhouse LA Opportunity Award .
The Newhouse LA Opportunity Award looks to extend a helping hand to students studying in Los Angeles so they are better able to meet their bursar bill obligations and/or other unforeseen financial circumstances. This award will be based on demonstrated financial need and the criteria set by the Newhouse LA award structure. Students will be provided with more information about needs based financial aid provided by the Newhouse LA program on a semester by semester basis.
IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEWHOUSE LA OPPORTUNITY AWARD, STUDENTS MUST APPLY FOR THE OAKIE FOUNDATION AWARD
To be eligible for these awards, students must be full participants in the Newhouse LA semester program. i.e: enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits for fall/ spring and 6 credits for the summer.
If you have any questions as to how this aid may affect your current financial aid package, please consult your financial aid advisor.
Complete this application by Monday, July 15 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
In order to be considered for the Newhouse LA Opportunity Awards, students must apply for the Oakie Charitable Foundation Award.
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Students are responsible for securing and viewing a FILM from the filmography found here.
Students should write an essay, which includes the following:
Essays should be: Word documents, 900 and 1000 words, double spaced, 12pt. Times New Roman, with 1 inch margins.
Submit to Lauren Palius at lppalius@syr.edu by Monday, July 15 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
These merit based awards will be judged by a committee of Syracuse University Professors. Essays will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Eligibility requirements:
Awards (up to):
Two (2) $500 awards
Two (2) $1,000 awards
One (1) $1,500 award
One (1) $2,000 award
Award is received via the awardees’ Syracuse University Bursar account. NOTE: The acceptance of this award may impact a student’s existing financial aid package. Students may contact their financial aid counselor in the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarship Programs at 315-443-1513 to determine if acceptance of this scholarship will have any impact on their account.
Please contact Lauren Palius, Assistant Director of the Newhouse LA program with any questions lppalius@syr.edu
The Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Charitable Foundation’s mission is to follow through with the late Jack Oakie’s wish, “Give the money to the kids,” by underwriting lectures on comedy and scholarships for deserving film and theater students at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country.
Both Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie were active participants in and during the famous Golden Age of Hollywood. Jack Oakie came to Hollywood in 1927. His career by that time already included vaudeville, Broadway musicals and appearances in New York films. In Hollywood, he made 87 pictures, mostly comedies or musical comedies, over which period he perfected his trademark comic triple-take. His career included such films as “Once in a Lifetime,” “Million Dollar Legs” and “It Happened Tomorrow.” Oakie received an Academy Award nomination in the supporting role category for his satirical portrait of a Mussolini-like head of state in 1940’s “The Great Dictator.” Victoria Horne Oakie was an American character-actress, appearing in 49 films (uncredited in 25 of these) during the 1940s and 1950s. Some of the films in which she appeared included Blue Skies (1946), Forever Amber (1947, uncredited), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949), and Harvey (1950). Jack Oakie died in 1978 and his wife, Victoria Horne, died in 2003. Between them, they acted in more than 122 films over a 60-year period. Their contributions to acting and comedy can now be passed on to a new generation with the help of their Foundation scholarships.