Several school-sponsored scholarships are available for needy LPHS college-bound seniors who have shown a combination of ability, leadership and character, service to the school and motivation in overcoming obstacles during their years at LPHS. Several of these funds originated because of alumni interest in the school since the Alumni Association was founded in 2001. A list of the winners can be found below.

Waller/Lincoln Park High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund

During preparations for the 1999 Centennial, Nancy Stocking, wife of alumnus Warren Stocking (1954), donated $1,000 to the school in his memory, establishing the general Alumni Scholarship Fund. We are most grateful to her for providing the basis and impetus for a fund to help deserving students to pay college expenses. Criteria for receiving the award are: academic achievement, service to the school and community and leadership potential. One $500 award was given in June 2001, two in June 2002, and three in 2003. Since June 2004, two or three $1,000 awards have been given.

William Leaveck Memorial Fund

This award was first awarded in June 2004 to a musically talented student (in the instrumental or vocal music program), in memory of William Leaveck, president of the revived Waller/LPHS Alumni Association from 2001 to 2003. It is awarded when enough funds are donated to this purpose.



Elizabeth & Charles McLean Scholarship Fund
Scholarship of $1,000, established by Kristina McLean (89) in June 2004,
available to a graduating senior planning to purse studies in a math/science field.

Charles Henry McLean was born in Chicago and grew up in Logan Square. After graduating from Steinmetz High School, he served in the Navy from 1945-48. He enrolled at the University of Illinois at the Navy Pier campus upon returning, and later graduated from the Champaign campus, earning a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.  He began his career at the Chicago Bureau of Street Traffic, where he met his wife Elizabeth Jackson. Upon marrying, Elizabeth and Charles McLean became the first married licensed engineers in the nation. In 1962, he began a 30-year stint with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), where he oversaw the state highway system in the six-county Chicago region. He played a key role in the development of the Minutemen Patrol (the automated system that notes and broadcasts traffic congestion reports) and in creating the program that lets motorists make free cell phone calls to *999 to report traffic and other problems on the area expressways. After leaving IDOT, he went to work for his wife, Elizabeth, at EJM Engineering, Inc.

Elizabeth Jackson McLean was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and was the only woman in her class when she worked her way through college. When she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in engineering, less than one percent of the civil engineers in the nation were women. Working for the City of Chicago, she become first deputy commissioner of public works and the first woman to hold such a position in Chicago. After twelve years, she left to form her own engineering consulting firm: EJM Engineering, Inc.
 
Besides their work, Elizabeth and Charles enjoyed spending time with their two daughters (one of whom graduated from LPHS) and five grandchildren, and they spent much time at their 60-acre farm in Wisconsin. Elizabeth and Charles lived in the Lincoln Park community for over 40 years. They were involved in many community organizations and were strong supporters of Waller/LPHS.

Scholarship Winners of Alumni-sponsored Awards

June, 2001

June 2007