In May 2010, the North Ful­ton Branch of AAUW awarded $2,500 schol­ar­ships to two women pur­su­ing their Mas­ters Degrees at area col­leges. AAUW is proud to announce that one year later, both recip­i­ents have received their Master’s Degrees.

Schnell Man­son, a recent grad­u­ate of Geor­gia State University’s Robin­son Col­lege of Busi­ness, received the AAUW – North Ful­ton Branch aca­d­e­mic schol­ar­ship two years in a row. Accord­ing to Ms. Man­son “the awards have been a tremen­dous asset in help­ing to pay for my MBA grad­u­ate degree. Receiv­ing these schol­ar­ships has made the ris­ing cost of tuition and stu­dent fees less tax­ing”. Schnell grad­u­ated in May with a Master’s in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion (MBA) with a 3.78 GPA. She is pur­su­ing a career as a Senior Finan­cial Ana­lyst with a com­pany in the North Ful­ton area. She plans to con­tinue to work with AAUW. “I have really enjoyed being part of AAUW and I look for­ward to help­ing the North Ful­ton Branch recruit other schol­ar­ship recip­i­ents” said Ms. Manson.

Klaretta Young was also a North Ful­ton Branch schol­ar­ship win­ner for this past aca­d­e­mic year. She recently received her Mas­ters of Arts in Teach­ing (MAT) from Rein­hardt University’s Price School of Edu­ca­tion with a 3.95 GPA and is actively pur­su­ing a teach­ing posi­tion. Ms. Young is an active mem­ber of the North Ful­ton branch and was recently selected by the branch to receive a $500 schol­ar­ship to attend AAUW’s National Con­fer­ence for Col­lege Women Stu­dent Lead­ers (NCCWSL).

Ms. Young com­mented that “It was an honor to have been cho­sen from among so many intel­li­gent and deserv­ing young women to receive the AAUW schol­ar­ship. The finan­cial assis­tance allowed me to focus on my aca­d­e­mic achieve­ment and less on the finan­cial details of attend­ing school. I will be for­ever grate­ful to AAUW. To show my con­tin­ued appre­ci­a­tion and to help pave the way for future recip­i­ents, I will con­tinue to do my part by being actively involved in AAUW, North Ful­ton Branch.”

All monies for these annual schol­ar­ships were secured by Branch mem­bers through their vol­un­teer work before and dur­ing AAUW’s Annual Book Fair. This year 75,000 gen­tly used books will be avail­able at bar­gain rates from Octo­ber 4 – 9, 2011 at Perime­ter Mall.

Visit the local branch web­site at http://aauwnorthfultonga.wordpress.com/ for addi­tional schol­ar­ship infor­ma­tion and http://bookfairaauw.org/ for addi­tional Book Fair information.