For students entering their senior or fifth year (intern year). This scholarship is intended to encourage students who plan a career teaching at the elementary level. Recipients shall be graduates of a high school in the State of Michigan and shall be selected on the basis of their interest in teaching at the elementary level.

Her first teaching job was in Flint, Michigan at Cook School.  She taught there three years while her husband was pursuing advanced working medicine.  Her annual paycheck was $2600, which was a salary higher than the average being paid during 1948-1949 in the state of Michigan.

“We lived in many towns in this country.  This experience helped me to become even more aware of the excellence that we have here at Michigan State.  Through this endowment I hope to help in a small way to perpetuate this excellence.”