FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Cindy Deppe, media relations, 641-269-4834

May 12, 2008

GRINNELL COLLEGE STUDENTS RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS FROM LADIES EDUCATION SOCIETY

Five Grinnell College students have received scholarships from the Ladies Education Society, the college’s oldest surviving organization. The Society, founded in 1862, annually awards scholarships on the basis of academic excellence, character, leadership and financial need.

The 2008 award winners are: Amy Rothbaum, a senior sociology major from Merrick, N.Y.; Juliana Blatz Du Rivage, a senior political science and French double major from Evanston, Ill.; Nicole Spear, a senior German major from Brainerd, Minn.; Abby Griffith, a senior sociology major and neuroscience concentration from Rockford, Ill.; and Amy Drake, a senior history major from Mystic, Conn. (not pictured).

Members of the Society are shown in the back row, left to right: Betty Moffett, Paula Osgood, Deanna Shorb, Sue Drake, Elizabeth Hays, Katherine McClelland, Leslie Lyons, Neela Nandyal, and Leslie Gregg-Jolly.

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