Scholarships and Dessert Fest By Yewon Sung On September 14, the School of Education (SoE) celebrated the awarding of $80,300 in scholarships to 94 deserving students for the 2016-17 academic year at its annual Dessert Fest. Annually, SoE offers 44 categories of scholarships to SCSU students who are enrolled in Education programs. Support for these scholarships comes from a variety of donors, including alumni, faculty, and friends and families of former students. Many of the scholarships have an interesting story behind them. For example, there is a story of Elsie Kalionen Scholars Fund for Future Teachers. Elsie Kalionen was born on March 10, 1917, to parents who were Finnish immigrants to Minneapolis. Elsie came to St. Cloud State Teachers College in the fall of 1935. After graduating with her two-year degree, Elsie taught for a year in a one-room rural school. She then settled in north Minneapolis and taught for 30 years in Wayzata. One of her students was Amy Klobuchar (US senator from Minnesota). In 1978, Elsie Kalionen sent her first gift to St. Cloud State – a gift of $20 to support the Harvey Waugh Memorial Scholarship. In the years to follow she would send a gift from timeto-time, her largest gift being $125 sent in 2003. Elsie passed away in August, 2010, leaving a sizeable estate gift to the School of Education. Through this endowment, her love for education continues to impact the lives of student. Applications for the 2017-18 academic year are due March 3rd, 2017. Students who want to apply should visit to the university scholarship webpage (www.stcloudstate.edu/ huskiesscholarships) to see all of the scholarship opportunities. Based upon each individual student’s profile the webpage will alert the student to all of the scholarships for which they are eligible. Scholarship recipients for the 2017-18 academic year will be announced in April 2017 and all recipients are strongly encouraged to attend the Dessert Fest to be held in September 2017. In addition to celebrating the scholarship recipients, the Dessert Fest also honors the donors and provides an opportunity for recipients and donots to meet. Scholarship recipients also have the opportunity to nominate an honored faculty or staff member who has made a difference for them during their time at St. Cloud State.
Retired School of Education and Child and Family Studies Faculty and scholarship donors Pamm Minden (left) and Glen Palm (right). Scholarship recipient Sharalyn Snavely (center).
SoE Scholarships Christine Adolphson Memorial Scholarship Brewer Endowed Scholarship in Teacher Education Luther Brown Scholarship Fund Megan Christopherson Hoisington Scholarship Charles Emery Memorial Scholarship for Student Teaching Dennis and Anne Fields Scholarship in Information Media Eva Gadberry Scholarship for Special Education Graduate Students Bruce and Gail Geyer Scholarship in Education Floyd and Esther Gilbert Scholarship in Teacher Development Catherine Mary Gohl Memorial Scholarship Golden Rule Scholarship in Elementary Education James and Muriel Grunerud Scholarship in Educational Administration Bonnie Hedin Graduate Scholarship for Library Media Specialists Odette Hedlund Scholarship Imbra-Steffens Scholarship for Women in Higher Education Glen and Ruth Allen Jadwin Scholarship in Teacher Development Doug Johnson Memorial Scholarship Melissa Johnson Memorial Scholarship Schuyler C. Joyner Scholarship in Education Dr. Doreen Keable Learning Resources Center Scholarship Klein Crowder Family Scholarship in Education Elnora Kraft Elementary Education Scholarship William and Mary Leopard & Bertha Binnie Leopard Scholarship Kristi Lieser Special Education Endowed Scholarship Valeria Lind Fredell Scholarship for Future K-12 Reading & Elementary Teachers William and Alice Lund English Scholarship Fred and Marvel Menninga Scholarship in Teacher Education Howard Merriman Memorial Scholarship in Secondary Education Pamm Minden Award for Outstanding Child and Family Studies Graduate Research Dora Perry Scholarship in Middle Education Olga Satre Hart Scholarship for Education Students Olga Satre Hart Scholarship for Education Students in Athletics Carl and Marilyn Savage Graduate Student Scholarship in Information Media Patricia Schumacher Teacher Development Scholarship Maybelle Smith Scholarship Larry Strand Family Scholarship in Special Education Teacher Development Academic Scholarship Merton and Marcia Thompson Information Media Scholarship for Study Abroad Beverly Timmers Scholarship for Special Education Students Teaching Semester Ella Topp Rural Special Education Scholarship M. Marie Trumbull Elementary Education Scholarship Sarah Ann Uhl Cram Scholarship in Education Carol Virginia Walsh Wood Endowed Scholarship Fati Zarghami Scholarship for Child and Family Studies Student Teaching
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