SWE-D Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship

The Past Presidents Scholarship program is now in its third year.  We ended the second year with over $11,800 raised, including donations from the SWE 60^th Celebration and from 13 of our 27 Past Presidents.  However, we still need over $13,000 to reach our goal.  

SWE Detroit introduced the Past Presidents Scholarship Program in FY11.  Our goal is to raise $2,500 each year for five years and SWE Detroit will match up to $2,500 for each of these years for the endowed scholarship.  The target is to award the first scholarship at the 65th Anniversary of SWE Detroit, in honor of the late Past Presidents. 

We would love your support in helping us locate 11 Past Presidents, or their families, whom we have lost contact with and to encourage them to participate in this program.  You can also choose to donate yourself in honor of one of our Past Presidents.

The program will be tracked separately from the Member Solicitation Program and have its own levels: Diamond - $1000+, Sapphire - $500 to $999, Emerald - $250 to $499, and Quartz - $50 to $249.  Contributions will be tracked yearly and the level will be determined based on accumulated contributions received by SWE Detroit.

If you have contact information for any of the “missing” Past Presidents listed below, are interested in supporting the SWE Detroit Past President Scholarship Program, or creating your own endowed scholarship to build a legacy to benefit the SWE Detroit Scholarship Program, please contact Lisa Purvis, Shannon Atchison, or Jennifer Morikawa at swe_detroit@swe.org.

                       

Thank you Past Presidents, Members, and friends of SWE Detroit who have donated so far (as of 5/16/12):

Diamond

Laurie Ramsay

Sapphire Level

Sarah Kirkish

Jessica Mattis

Jennifer Morikawa

Brooke Voto

Emerald Level

Janice T. Ford

Judy Jbara

Lisa Purvis

Marie (Demos) Kardasis

Quartz Level

Alison Holmes

Anna Bradford

Birgit Sorgenfrei

Cathi Kohn

Cindy Hodges

Dawn Tilbury

Diana Cernis

Irene Sharpe

Jennifer (Darnell) Briggs

Lydia Lazurenko

Silvia Karlsson

Tina Lonski (In Honor of Jennifer Darnell)

T. Rowe Price (Company Match in honor of Janice Ford)

Kristin Ramey

Special thanks to the following for pledging to contribute for each year of the program:

Silvia Karlsson

Catherine Kohn

Jennifer Morikawa

Laurie Ramsay

Irene Sharpe

“Missing” Past Presidents:

Years of Service	Name
1952 - 1954	M. Ann Lawrence
1954 - 1956	Elise H. McGough (Passed Away 2005)
1956 - 1957	Geneva Van Horn
1958 - 1960, 1961 - 1962, 1964 - 1965	Marjorie Easterbrook
1962 - 1964	Mary G. Sohler
1965 - 1968, 1976 - 1977, 1977 - 1978	Ann O. Fletcher (Passed Away 2010)
1968 - 1969, 1969 - 1970	Stella Berbynuk (Passed Away 1997)
1970 - 1971, 1971 - 1972	Helma Fuhrmann
1972 - 1973	Eva Michalski Quinn
1973 - 1974	Beverly Bush
1974 - 1976	Janet Hall