The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County presented $4,450 on behalf of the Commission for Women on May 21 to the College of Southern Maryland to support the Jane Hale Sypher Scholarship Fund. Established in 2010 by the Commission for Women, the Jane Hale Sypher Scholarship Fund supports a non-traditional student who is a single parent or displaced homemaker at CSM. The scholarship fund is supported by the Commission for Women’s annual Women’s History Banquet in March. Proceeds from and donations collected at the event support the Jane Hale Sypher Scholarship Fund.
Those attending the May 21 presentation included Lori Jennings-Harris, director of St. Mary’s Department of Aging & Human Services; Chelsea Brown, CSM’s director of development; Jane Hale Sypher, retired dean of College of Southern Maryland; Norma Pipkin, chair, Commission for Women; Karen Smith Hupp, CSM’s assistant vice president of government relations and Public Information Officer; and members of the Commission for Women.
Sypher, a life-long resident of St. Mary’s County, began her career in secondary education as a teacher at Great Mills High School, where she also held positions as career education coordinator and assistant principal. She was acting principal at Leonardtown High School before being named assistant dean and then dean of CSM’s Leonardtown Campus beginning in 1992. Sypher retired in 2004 after 30 years of work in both the public school system and CSM. She holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree from Bowie State University. She served as the first female president of Lexington Park Rotary, secretary of St. Mary’s County Democratic Club, board member for St. Mary’s Hospital and was a onetime St. Mary’s oyster king.
Recipients of the scholarship must be a St. Mary’s County resident for at least five years and at least 25 years of age.
Brown advised the commissioners that since the scholarship was established there have been 24 recipients of the Jane Hale Sypher Scholarship.
For information on scholarships available at the College of Southern Maryland, visit https://www.csmd.edu/costs-aid/cred...inancial-aid/scholarships/scholarship-finder/
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Those attending the May 21 presentation included Lori Jennings-Harris, director of St. Mary’s Department of Aging & Human Services; Chelsea Brown, CSM’s director of development; Jane Hale Sypher, retired dean of College of Southern Maryland; Norma Pipkin, chair, Commission for Women; Karen Smith Hupp, CSM’s assistant vice president of government relations and Public Information Officer; and members of the Commission for Women.
Sypher, a life-long resident of St. Mary’s County, began her career in secondary education as a teacher at Great Mills High School, where she also held positions as career education coordinator and assistant principal. She was acting principal at Leonardtown High School before being named assistant dean and then dean of CSM’s Leonardtown Campus beginning in 1992. Sypher retired in 2004 after 30 years of work in both the public school system and CSM. She holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree from Bowie State University. She served as the first female president of Lexington Park Rotary, secretary of St. Mary’s County Democratic Club, board member for St. Mary’s Hospital and was a onetime St. Mary’s oyster king.
Recipients of the scholarship must be a St. Mary’s County resident for at least five years and at least 25 years of age.
Brown advised the commissioners that since the scholarship was established there have been 24 recipients of the Jane Hale Sypher Scholarship.
For information on scholarships available at the College of Southern Maryland, visit https://www.csmd.edu/costs-aid/cred...inancial-aid/scholarships/scholarship-finder/
[ This article originally appeared here ]