During three Saturdays in March, the Jacob L. and Lewis Fox Foundation conducted interviews with 36 seniors from the three Hartford public high schools at the law offices of Halloran & Sage. This year-long initiative concluded in the month of March with intense student interviews which resulted in awarding 19 area seniors with college scholarships totaling over $215,000.

Starting in October, seniors submit applications, which contain information about their backgrounds, numerous essays by the students and recommendations from their teachers and mentors, along with their official transcripts and SAT scores. The Foundation then has reading teams that review each application and choose twelve finalists from each school. Those twelve are scheduled for the interview process, which culminates in the selection of an average of six recipients from each school.

The 2003 Fox Scholars will be announced in the Hartford Courant on April 9, 2003 and honored at an awards breakfast that same day at the Hartford Club, which will be attended by their parents, principals and guidance counselors of the three high schools, and Trustees of the Fox Foundation.

David W. Parmelee, President of the Fox Foundation states, "Halloran & Sage's generous donation of conference rooms on the three Saturdays in March is an important contribution to the scholarship process. It provides a central venue for all of the candidates being interviewed as well as a comfortable, spacious atmosphere where all of the Trustees can interview all of the applicants in an efficient yet thorough manner. The Foundation is most grateful for this."

The Jacob L. and Lewis Fox Foundation was established by Lewis Fox as a memorial to his father, Jacob L. Fox, the Foundation has awarded scholarships to graduating seniors of the three Hartford public high schools since 1937, totaling 828 recipients. Mr. Fox was a graduate of Hartford Public High School, a local attorney, and, most prominently, a member of Hartford's Board of Education for 37 years. He was committed to serving the city, especially the intellectual and moral education of its children. He died in 1976. Through his generosity to the Fox Foundation, his character and ideals are perpetuated in the lives of succeeding generations of "his children", the students of Hartford. Chosen on the basis of scholastic achievement, demonstrated leadership, spirit of reverence, outstanding character and concern for others, they personify the quest for excellence and service advocated by Mr. Fox throughout his life.