Membership Challenge Successful!

The $2500 scholarship goal was reached by the end of 2009. A big thank you to Cindy Choate for making it all happen.
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Scholarship Update and Thanks

Thanks to the generosity of the members of SMWGA, four $1000 scholarship awards have been presented in 2009. The recipients include Amie Chaisson of Turner who is a junior in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Maine in Orono. Amie has worked and played golf at Turner Highlands Country Club. Kate Merrill of Portland has entered her freshman year at Mount Holyoke College. She has been a competitive young player in SMWGA events while working at Toddybrook Golf Course and with the junior program at Val Halla. Alexa Rancourt of South Portland has entered Furman University after a summer of successful competition winning the WMSGA Championship and earning entrance into the US Women’s Amateur Championship. She has participated in the First Tee program and Habitat for Humanity. Lisa Rogers of Topsham will attend the University of Vermont. A member of Mere Creek Golf Course she played on the Mt Ararat golf team and qualified for state competition in high school. All four young women have exemplary academic records and happen to play golf! We are delighted to award them with the SMWGA scholarships.