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Reception Toasts New Golden Bear Scholarships
Golden Bear Educational Scholars, top row from left: Wendy Tyler Zimmerman, Linda Charmaraman, Jennifer Collett, Sean Gass, Cathlin Goulding, Daniel Gottheiner, Nancy Kuei. Front row from left: Parisa Muller, De Cola Yvone Groce, Francis Kim, Melissa Trubo, Erica Williams, Helen Min. Not pictured: Timothy Wolcott
Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors, the School has a new fellowship to encourage academic achievement and dedication to education. Called the Golden Bear Educational Scholarships, the awards are designed to help offset the cost of a graduate education for students who are committed to improving children’s learning.
On September 16, the School held a reception at the Women’s Faculty Club to thank the donors who made this fellowship possible, and to honor the first group of students to receive these awards. Speakers included Ph.D. candidate Linda Charmaraman, the first woman in her family to attend a university. She thanked those who contributed toward this scholarship, on behalf of her whole family.
Other scholarship recipients included Wendy Tyler Zimmerman, who is switching careers from the military to education. “I’ve come to realize that I am happiest when working with children,” she said, “and it’s my great desire to be an elementary school teacher.”
Over the last three years, the School of Education has been busy designing new programs in response to the critical shortage of qualified teachers and administrators in California, particularly in under-performing schools. UC Berkeley’s programs have received high praise, but help is often lacking for the students. Private donors who responded to direct mail and telemarketing appeals during the 2002–03 school year by making generous gifts, some in excess of $1,000, are increasingly providing much appreciated scholarship support. These gifts channel essential funds toward tuition, fees, books, and other educational expenses.
A generous donor originally agreed to match dollar for dollar all new gifts of $1,000 or more, up to $50,000. On seeing the success of the funding appeal, all gifts were matched dollar for dollar, helping the school raise over $100,000 in scholarship support.
Programs at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education are often cited as national models. The Annual Golden Bear Educational Scholars Awards support this tradition of excellence through the generosity of private benefactors.
Helen Min, Dean Pearson, and Mary Alyce Pearson Chris Good, Director of Development Jesse Perry, GSEAA President Charles Brydon, and Alice Brydon Robert Breuer of the GSEAA Cathlin Goulding and Wendy Zimmerman congratulated by Mary Jane Brinton photos this page by Peg Skorpinski
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