Andesonville Elemetary teacher receives $6,000 scholarship
ABIGAIL HILL
The honor society for female educators promotes excellence in education and personal and professional growth.
By providing graduate scholarships to members, the organization emphasizes leadership development for its more than 52,000 members in 17 countries.
A member of the society’s Tennessee Pi Chapter, Hill is attending Lincoln Memorial University, where she is seeking an Ed.S. degree in instructional leadership.
Pat Graff, International Scholarship Committee chairperson, announced the recipients following the committee’s recent meeting in Austin, Texas.
“We granted five graduate program scholarships of $6,000 each for the 2023-24 academic year,” Graff said.
Recipients must have earned a bachelor’s degree, be enrolled in a recognized graduate studies program and have been a society member for at least a year to qualify for scholarship consideration.
Since its scholarship program began in 1940, The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has given 1,194 female educators more than $5,600,000 in scholarships.
In addition to the international scholarships, many state organizations and local chapters have scholarship funds to assist members pursuing graduate studies
The honor organization of key female educators was formed in Austin on May 11, 1929, by Dr. Annie Webb Blanton from a nucleus of 12 founders representing all levels of education, kindergarten through university, from various parts of Texas.
A professor of rural education at the University of Texas, Blanton was elected president of the Texas State Teachers’ Association in 1916, the first woman to hold the office.
Blanton was also the first woman to serve Texas as state superintendent of public instruction, having been elected to that post in 1918.