Alumni & Friends of Bellaire High School Scholarship Drive

AFBHS is supported primarily by raising funds from alumni, friends and community businesses. Our goals are to raise money for student scholarships, teacher grants, and school improvements.  We strive to provide four (4) $2,000.00 scholarships to graduating seniors each year.  Additionally, we award one $500 grant to a faculty member and $350 to a staff member.

A Memorial Scholarship Fund has been set up in honor of Cesar Cortes. Cesar was a victim of school campus violence at Bellaire High School on January 14, 2020. The Alumni & Friends of Bellaire High School has set up a scholarship fund that will be awarded to a graduating high school JROTC student in memory of Cesar.

This scholarship fund is for alumni, friends and family of Bellaire High School. This fund was created by past presidents and officers of the African-American Association (AAA), formerly known as the Bellaire Student Alliance (BSA). Our mission is to support and promote post-secondary education for Black students at Bellaire High School. All donations, no matter the size, are appreciated. We will be working with Bellaire’s AAA to select deserving students. Please refer back to this site for updates, scholarship criteria and more info on our award presentation, tentatively planned for February 2021. Thank you in advance for your love, support and generous contributions. Go Cardinals! #bhspavestheway *Scholarship criteria will be based on GPA, financial need and community service involvement. All proceeds go directly to our scholarship fund.

Mollie Martin Broussard Scholarship

Mollie Martin was the first Debate Coach at BHS when the school opened in 1955. By the time she retired in 1962 she had been awarded  Coach of the Year and her teams had won National  Sweepstakes Championships in 1958 and 1959 and in total won more sweepstake points at the National Speech Tournaments during her six-year tenure than any other school from the inception of the National Forensic League in 1932 through 1962.

Mollie founded and each year directed the Bellaire Forensic Tournament; the largest and most prestigious high school invitational Speech Tournament in the nation, and the only one to have a college division, with colleges as far away as Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania attending. 

 She was elected to the National Debate and Speech Association Hall of Fame, as have each of her four successors.  She began, and her successor coaches and their students have continued, one of the finest Speech and Debate programs in the nation with the only Bellaire High School teams to win Statewide and National recognition for their accomplishments.