This scholarship will allow us to make a difference in the field, student by student. While at W.C.C. Ms. Clancy did her fieldwork in the Early Childhood Center at Sarah Lawrence, one of the nation's top laboratory preschools, and at the Virginia Marx Children's Center. A licensed practical nurse in psychiatry, Clancy practiced nursing at a psychiatric hospital in Essex, England, having graduated from the Romford College of Nursing and Midwifery in Essex. She emigrated to England from Northern Ireland at the age of 17, and then to the United States when she won a green card in a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service lottery for Irish citizens. A formal articulation agreement between the public and private institutions, easing the transfer of credits for students who earn an Early Childhood Associate's degree at Westchester Community College to Sarah Lawrence College, has been in place since 1996.
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