Zonta Club of Lincoln awards five scholarship

 

[May 27, 2021] 

The Zonta Club of Lincoln awarded three Women’s Career Scholarships this month:

Carmalita (Carly) Martin of Lincoln attending Bowling Green State University seeking an Accounting degree.

Jaycie Doerr graduating from Mount Pulaski High School will attend Western Illinois University majoring in Journalism.

Emma Buenrostro, graduating from Mount Pulaski High School, will attend Illinois State University with teaching as her major.

The Women’s Career Scholarships were possible as a result of Logan County residents' contributions to the Zonta Club of Lincoln’s Virtual Turkey Dinner held this Fall. The 56th Annual Sit Down Dinner was cancelled due to Covid-19 attendance limits of 50 people when typically 1,000 to 1,200 attendees are served.

Two Lincoln Community High School students, Madison Orebaugh and Emma Jones, were the recipients of the Melanie Schaler Memorial Nursing Scholarships. These awards were made possible by a generous donation from the family of Melanie Schaler and contributions from the Zonta Club of Lincoln.

Both women are 2021 graduates of LCHS with plans to major in Nursing.

This Fall, Madison Orebaugh will attend Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville’s School of Nursing.

Emma Jones begins her studies at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois.

The Zonta Club of Lincoln and the Schaler Family send well wishes to all of this year’s applicants. Many applied, but funds were limited due to Covid-19 restrictions for fundraising. We wish all graduates of Logan County the best as they begin their journeys into a new phase of their lives and hope that each student will consider supporting Zonta’s mission to advance the status of women worldwide. Zonta International “envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential.”

[Marcia Cook]