LENICE CHRISTINE MERRILL ESKRITT SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: Rachel Holland Major: Family and Consumer Sciences
Lenice Christine Merrill Eskritt was a housewife and mother, much loved by her family. Her sensitivity and compassion to her fellow being served as an example to all who knew her. She was a very intelligent person, who, for whatever reason, was not able to continue her education beyond high school. This scholarship honors her being and potential in the desire that others in similar circumstances may be assisted in developing their potential through education.
JOAN WHITFORD AULD FUTURE TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: America Ambriz-Zermeno Majors: Elementary Education; Spanish
The purpose of this scholarship is to assist with costs to UWSP School of Education students during their student teaching and/or student teacher certification. Joan (Whitford) Auld grew up in Spencer, Wis., raised by her grandparents, Emma and Jonas Ayer. From early childhood, she dreamed of becoming a teacher. After graduating from Spencer High School, she enrolled at Wisconsin State College at Stevens Point. She spent her weekends, as well as her winter and summer breaks, back in Spencer, working to help pay for her college education. In 1956, she graduated with a degree in elementary education and began her teaching career in Marshfield, Wis. After a dozen years of service there, she married Lawrence Auld and moved to Sumter, South Carolina, where she raised two children, defeated cancer, and ultimately returned to teaching. Mrs. Auld retired in 1996, after spending a total of nearly 30 years in the classroom, where she taught hundreds and hundreds of children to read and write, to add and subtract, and to respect others. Even in retirement, she remained an educator-at-heart, serving as the “first teacher” for her grandchildren, much as she had for her own children.
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