Dear Joseph F. Smith Family Board members and Associates,

After much deliberation, and with the assistance of the voting board and associates, I have selected April Robinson, David McKell Bowen, and Lindsey Marie Bushman as the first candidates to be awarded the Joseph F. Smith Scholarship for 2011. Thank you for all your recommendations this year. As many of you stated, it was an extremely difficult decision to make with such outstanding applications. I appreciate the prayerful consideration of each candidate, and I have every confidence that we have selected three very deserving people.

I want you to know how good I feel about giving this help to Grandpapa’s decedents to further there education. I was filled with the spirit as I read the applications, and the knowledge that they had about who they were, where they came from and where they were going.

I believe in this scholarship and I am going to make every effort to see that it grows each year! I hope you will help do the same.

With love, your cousin,

Carter