Children Cancer Network’s John W. Luttrell Scholarship Fund was established in 2005, receiving its initial funding from friends and family of John Luttrell who passed away that year from brain cancer. Donations were made in John’s name with the goal of assisting children and their families, whose lives had been impacted by childhood cancer, seek higher education opportunities.

John was intimately familiar with the struggles that families face fighting childhood cancer, both through his grandson’s treatments for leukemia and later meeting other patients during his own treatments for a brain tumor. The annual scholarships in his name will be a small reward for the strength and courage that these families demonstrate in their daily lives.

Children’s Cancer Network awards 2-4 scholarships each year to cancer survivors or their immediate family members whose lives and college savings have been changed by childhood cancer. The award may be used for books and tuition for applicants seeking post high school education opportunities including, but not limited to, Universities (Baccalaureate, Masters or Doctoral programs), Community Colleges and Trade Schools. The scholarship will be made payable to the recipient’s school on behalf of the recipient.

Scholarship applications should be completed and returned by May 31st to:

Children’s Cancer Network
PO Box 11296
Tempe, AZ 85284

Applications will initially be provided to "pediatric oncology" practices providing services to patients in Arizona and Illinois and in future years will be posted on National Scholarship web sites.

Scholarship awardees will be notified and an announcement posted on the Children’s Cancer
Network website by June 30th.