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Alumna funds new scholarship
By Lynn M. Woolhouse
Non-traditional students are the beneficiaries of a $276,000 bequest by a SCSU alumna.
Elizabeth Ann Lehman Howard bequeathed money to fund a scholarship that will be available for a non-traditional female student. Howard’s scholarship is a way of giving back to the university that provided her with an education.
The Elizabeth Ann Lehman Howard Scholarship was established for women who are at least 25-years-old, have graduated in the upper third of their high school class or had an ACT score of at least 24.
Applicants must also have personal career goals requiring a college degree in order to help others directly through teaching, medicine or a similar field.
Howard thought that SCSU was an excellent school. She received her two-year teaching degree from SCSU in 1949, her bachelor’s in education in 1954 and her master’s in education in 1960. Howard was 33-years-old when she finished her master’s. She taught at elementary schools in the surrounding St. Cloud area including Jefferson Elementary and Madison Elementary.
Diane Moeller, director of Planned Giving at the SCSU Foundation, last met with Howard in 2000, at her home in Bentonville, Ark.
“She was a strong, independent woman,” Moeller said.�
Moeller said that through the scholarship, Howard wanted to encourage other women to pursue their goals.�
“Elizabeth had a love for education and a zest for life,” said Moeller.
Moeller distinctly remembers Howard as being “a feisty woman.” �
Howard was also a tutor for the Laubach Reading Organization, a nationally known tutoring program that teaches adults to read. She loved reading and art and enjoyed painting.
“She was an amazing woman with a strong love for St. Cloud State and our students,” Moeller said.
Howard took an early retirement from teaching to care for her ailing parents.� She passed away on Jan. 14, 2001, in Bentonville, Ark. She was 74-years-old.
The Elizabeth Ann Lehman Howard Scholarship will be available Feb. 1, 2003.�The scholarship will be administered by the Women’s Center, where students can pick up applications. The application deadline is April 1.
The Women’s Center has been administering scholarships for non-traditional students since 1990.�There are six other scholarships available for non-traditional women students: the Claude F. and Helen I. Delzoppo Scholarship, the Colleen and John Petters Scholarship, the Elaine L. Leach Scholarship for Women in Education Leadership, the Grace McDowall Memorial Scholarship, the Marcia Summers Career Opportunity Scholarship for Single Mothers and the Mary Jane Young Scholarship for the Education of Women.�
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