Scholarship to Honor Edison’s Robert A. Hine
Rosemead-based Southern California Edison Co. has established a scholarship in the memory of Robert A. Hine, the company’s manager of equal opportunity for 19 years until his death last August at 65.
The $20,000 Robert A. Hine Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a minority student planning to study full time at a four-year college. Beginning this year and continuing for 10 years, Edison will fund the scholarship in addition to the $320,000 the company annually gives in scholarships and grants.
The student who receives the Hine scholarship will be from a minority group underrepresented in college, which includes African-American, Latino, American Indian, first-generation Filipino, Cambodian or Vietnamese.
The student must either live or attend school in Edison’s service territory, which includes most of Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Information about how to apply will be sent to area high schools.
Hine, who lived in Pasadena, was a member of the board of governors of the State Bar of California and a member of the board of directors of the Pasadena/Foothill Urban League, the Pasadena branch of the NAACP and the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation.
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