By Matthew White

Sun Staff Writer

mwhite@evesun.com

OXFORD – Oxford Academy Scholarship Program has announced its annual Phone-A-Thon will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Chairperson Kate Constantine announced the students of the National Honor Society will be manning the telephones from 1-5 p.m. and is asking for tax-deductible contributions for the cause.

In the past, the generosity of the local communities has provided thousands of scholarship dollars for the seniors at Oxford Academy.

With the ever-growing cost of college tuition coupled with the continuation of a lagging economy and long-time employers and industries leaving upstate New York, today's high school seniors are seeking out as many opportunities as possible to help supplement or defray some of the cost of higher education.

While in the past, pre-college academia consisted merely of studying and preparing for the departure to a new educational experience that would propel students into the future, the present reality often includes the added burden and stresses attributed to finding a way to pay for college.