σρ scholarship donors and 收件人 in the food lab kitchen at SPU (left to right): 琳达 Middlebrooks ’64, SR co-president; Kathy Mayhle ’58, SR co-president; seniors Cortney Moore, Kirsti Graffenberger, and Andrea O’Brien; Nancy Edwards ’64, SR treasurer; and Rosalee Hughson ’60, 老部长.
Cousins and co-presidents of 好的赌博软件推荐’s σρ honorary society, Kathy Blair Mayhle ’58 and 琳达 Brown Middlebrooks ’64 love raising funds for student scholarships.
That fact means a great deal to senior Cortney Moore from Port Orchard, Washington. The first person from her family to go to college, she calls the σρ Scholarship “an enormous blessing.”
“我的每个家庭成员, 包括我, works to help pay for my education,科特尼说。, who wants to combine her abilities in public relations and fashion design and apply them in work with a design studio or fashion magazine. “σρ is one reason why I am able to accomplish my dream.”
The 60 members of σρ have built and continue to grow their endowed scholarship fund, which is managed by the Seattle Pacific Foundation. 成立于1986年, the σρ Scholarship Endowment, 由会费资助, 礼物, 还有特别的产品, 现在是200美元,000.
The organization is particularly proud of its 76-year history of support, specifically of students majoring in Family and Consumer
科学 (“Home 经济学” when σρ first formed in 1937) and those interested in education careers.
Both Kathy and 琳达 are educators. 琳达 says, “These young students with so much talent and Christian personality first study at
SPU, then take it out there where they can be a positive influence on a classroom of 30 kids.” She believes those scholarship 收件人 will demonstrate by their lives that God is in
control and that a person’s reliance should not
要靠自己，只要靠他. “如果学生听到
that over and over,” 琳达 concludes, “we can
change the world through our SPU graduates.”
Kirsti Graffenberger ’14 of Albany, Oregon,
and Andrea O’Brien ’13 of Spokane, Washington,
are also 2013 σρ Scholarship
收件人. 他们都说
σρ’s generosity helped them over the
financial hurdle in their study for careers as registered dietitians.
Kirsti, a farmer’s daughter and missionary
grandchild, has traveled through a number of
countries including the Dominican Republic and
印度. She believes that hunger is a solvable
问题. In 2011, she spent six weeks at an
infant care center in northern Haiti caring for 50
营养不良的儿童.
“It reassured me that the role of dietitians
fighting hunger is a global need,” Kirsti says.
“I learned more about what other organizations
are doing to help solve the hunger 问题.
I want to use that knowledge and what I’ve
learned in college to educate people in how to better feed themselves and live a
健康的生活方式.”
Andrea’s focus will also be treating nutrition-related
issues, but especially those within the
老龄化的婴儿潮一代.
σρ presidents Kathy and 琳达 say
that now the academic discipline of Family and
Consumer 科学 has broadened beyond the
“cooking and serving” model of old to include
interior design, clothing and textiles, food
and nutritional sciences, and the teaching of
FCS教育.
“It needs to stay relevant to the times,” says
琳达. “We’re very proud of our scholarship
接受者和他们的职业规划.”
There was a day when σρ, the Greek
letters that look like the “S” and “P” in
Seattle Pacific, made and sold dish towels,
and eventually began charging dues and
holding silent auctions, plant sales, and art
gallery tours to fund kitchen equipment and
small appliances for the budget-strapped
民政事务总署. 随着时间的推移，
needs may have changed, but the loyalty and
enthusiasm of σρ alumni and friends
从未减弱.
Scholarship 收件人 are invited to share their
σρ会议的目标. 因为
size of the group has increased, the gatherings
have moved 从家里s to campus facilities
比如猎鹰休息室.
Cortney says that the accepting learning
environment of SPU feels like her home away
从家里. For Andrea, it has been a case of
expanding her scientific knowledge, personal
成长，以及对上帝的信仰. Kirsti喜欢这样
studying in SPU’s urban location has opened
doors for her to serve the people of Seattle.
She, as well as Andrea, have been a part of the
student-led SPU 社区 Kitchen program
that both teaches good nutrition and provides
opportunities where the cooking that results is
shared at meals attended by instructors
和参与者.
For Kathy and 琳达, SPU was the place where
they were given a Christ-centered, lifelong
education and where their familial relationship
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heritage that is σρ thrills them. 他们
邀请其他人加入. 他们说越年轻
people who benefit from “a group of ladies
who started a scholarship endowment that just
“越长越好”.