The Adirondack Community Trust (ACT) offers a scholarship of $10,000 to a qualifying medical school student working toward an M.D. who is a resident of the Adirondack Park, St. Lawrence, Essex Franklin, Hamilton or Clinton County or has lived in one of those counties for a least two years.

The Dr. U. R. Plante Medical Scholarship Fund was endowed by his family to honor a dedicated doctor who spent 56 years practicing medicine in Massena. Having borrowed money from his sister so he could attend the University of Vermont, Dr. Plante understood the difficulty of paying for medical school.

He was also concerned that rural areas receive adequate medical services. One condition of the scholarship is that the recipient be willing to return to the Adirondack region or practice in a remote part of the U.S. or another country where doctors are needed, for at least two years.

For an application or more information, contact ACT Scholarship Coordinator Andrea Grout 518-523-9904, andrea@generousact.org or visit the website www.GenerousACT.org.

To read a profile on one Plante Scholar, Dr. Darci Beiras, who practices pediatric medicine in Tupper Lake, visit www.GenerousACT.org and click on Grants and Scholarships.

The Adirondack Community Trust is the community foundation encouraging philanthropy to serve the Adirondacks and beyond since 1997. ACT holds 212 charitable funds, of which some 35 make scholarship grants.