{"id":7,"date":"2013-07-13T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:56:16","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McKee Scholarship Program had its genesis under the Will of John McKee dated December 8, 1899. Pursuant to the Will, Colonel <a title=\"John McKee Biography\" href=\"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/?page_id=2\">John McKee<\/a>&nbsp;(who died April 6, 1902) gave the residue of his estate to the &#8220;head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia&#8221; and his successors, for the erection of a college, with emphasis on nautical training, conforming to certain requirements detailed in the Will.&nbsp; After years of litigation, it was determined that the estate, though significant, was inadequate to establish a naval academy in accordance with the terms of the Will.<\/p>\n<p>Since the charitable purposes of the Will could not be fulfilled exactly as envisioned by Colonel McKee, the Orphans&#8217; Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, determined that the estate should be used in a manner that most closely approximates his charitable purposes.&nbsp;Pursuant to the Adjudication of Judge Bolger,&nbsp;dated February 25, 1952, the Court awarded the fund&nbsp;<i>cy pres<\/i>, with the income to be used for a scholarship fund under the conditions set forth in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/pdf\/McKeeCase.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adjudication<\/a>. The Estate of John McKee is being administered as a Pennsylvania private foundation.<\/p>\n<p>A committee of distinguished citizens was chosen by the Court to administer the selection process (the \u201c<a title=\"John McKee Scholarship Committee\" href=\"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/?page_id=11\">McKee Scholarship Committee<\/a>\u201d).&nbsp; The McKee Scholarships have aided numerous fatherless young men&nbsp;by providing them the means to pursue post-secondary education and, in this way, honor the charitable intent of the Colonel McKee.<\/p>\n<p>A monument to Colonel John McKee and his wife, Emeline,&nbsp;was dedicated at Eden Cemetery on September 9, 2012 (below).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McKee Scholarship Program had its genesis under the Will of John McKee dated December 8, 1899. Pursuant to the Will, Colonel John McKee&nbsp;(who died April 6, 1902) gave the residue of his estate to the &#8220;head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia&#8221; and his successors, for the erection of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mckeescholars.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}