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For Left-Handed Caddies Named Gatlin: Payday!

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Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Tam Gray, Jeffrey Kluger, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia and Chris Taylor

Financing a higher education is easy if you are a lefty and attending Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa. Thanks to a southpaw benefactor who felt discriminated against, junior and senior lefties can get up to $1,000 a year as long as they need help. The scholarship is just one in a long list of odd grants, some tied to a specific school but most for the college of your choice. Which ones do you qualify for?

–Up to $9,000 for those who served as caddie at a Golf Association of Philadelphia club

–$8,000 for those named Gatlin or Gatling who attend North Carolina State University

–$3,000 for the children of licensed harness-racing drivers

–$1,000 for grain millers and their dependents

–$800-$1,000 for descendants of worthy Confederate veterans

–$250-$1,000 for those who grew up as “freethinkers”

–$300-$400 for greater New Bedford, Mass., residents whose ancestors were seafarers

–$300 for eagle scouts at Johnson & Wales University

–$3,333-$10,000 from David Letterman for telecommunications students at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

–Endowments for those named Hudson or Baxendale who attend Harvard

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