Women of Waterloo County Scholarship

Since 2001, this award at the University of Waterloo has recognized a first year student who has attended a Waterloo Region secondary school for at least three years, and has demonstrated academic merit along with leadership abilities. The current award is $2,500 each year. Due to special fund raising for our club’s 100th anniversary, two awards will be granted for the next several years, for a total of $5,000 each year.

This award was set up by the CFUW K-W Club from proceeds of the club’s millennium book project, Women of Waterloo County. The members of the club who created this book are justifiably proud of their work. This excellent book contains original biographies of 33 individual women of our region, two thematic articles and almost 90 historic photographs. The remarkable lives of these women span 200 years, and the women are highly diverse in their accomplishments: a Mennonite fraktur artist, an industrial chemist, a much-published poet. Some of the women profiled gave tireless volunteer leadership in organizations that have defined Canadian society; others achieved ‘firsts’ in librarianship, in education, in political life.

Unfortunately, this book is out of print, but please check your local library to read these impressive stories. This fund continues to be funded by club member donations and the annual used book sale.

Apply for this award on the University of Waterloo website.

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