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Winners
of the 2002 Re-Entry Scholarship for Women
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Scholarships awarded in honor of Dr. Maxine Crossley and the late Martha Desch |
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Dr
Maxine Crossley
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Martha
Desch
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The Zonta Club of the Conejo Valley Area is a service group consisting of executives in business. Through the efforts of the club's members, a Foundation has been established to fund scholarships to women seeking to acquire additional education and skills in order to return to employment after being out of the paid work force to care for their families. The Zonta Foundation of the Conejo Valley Area offered three $750 scholarships to career-oriented, re-entry students with a sincere need for financial assistance. Two scholarships will be awarded in honor of Dr. Maxine Crossley to qualified students and a third scholarship is reserved for a qualifying student majoring in graphic arts desktop publishing to honor the late Martha Desch, a local, well-known writer, editor and graphic artist. The Foundation's representatives reserve the right to allocate scholarships on an as-needed basis. This
year's winners are: We had 6 applicants for this years Re-entry Scholarships, 3 working to enter the teaching profession and 3 into the medical field. This year's most needy applicants were those all in the medical field. Martha Desch Scholarship - Tanya Burrill is pursuing an A.S. degree in Radiologic Technology at Moorpark college and wishes to continue on for a B.S. in Radiology at CSUN. JoAnn Saunders completed her AA and has been accepted to the CAN Program at Oxnard Collage which is required prior to beginning the LVN Program which she will be beginning in the Spring of 2003. Gina Zepeda is a now a 3-time recipient of one our Re-entry Scholarships and although still in a medical related field has changed to a degree that will be obtained more quickly than the Physician Assistant. She will be receiving her AA from Moorpark this spring and will be attending CSUN in the fall to pursue her BA in Speech Therapy. |
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