CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-08-13
Colorado Women's Clubs
Helping Many Girls
To An Education

The Colorado Federation of Wo.
mans clubs has been a great factor
for good. The work of the travelling
library is known over the entire state
and even more practical is that done
by the scholarship and loan fund com.
mittee.
| Statistics show that in the state ol
Colorado there are several hundred
students partly or entirely making
their own way through the education
al institutions 80 that, upon gradua-
ton, they may become self supporting
The largest number OF such cases
are found in our state normal school
since the paramount object OF grad
uation from the normal school Is self
support. The first year this can be
done with little disadvantage to the
school work, but the second year-the
year of graduation-it is almost impos-
sible for even the most energetic stu
dent to complete the course without
help.
So If anything happens in the way OF
illness to herself or family, anything
that prevents a girl from earning
money to carry her through the second
year she must of necessity drop out
of her class unless she receives aid
from the outside.
There have been numbers of such
cases in our Colorado educational in
stitutions.
Realizing this the Federation Or
ganized in 1901 its scholarship and
loan fund committee, asking from all
federated clubs a free will offering
which would make 1t possible to car
ry on the work. .
A statement of what has been ac-
complished will show with what en-
thusiasm this has been done.
The first year the loans amounted to
5000 only, the second 1925.
The third year $61O was loaned and
the fourth $3.50.
The following year $1,445, last year
s., SOB and this year, ending October
LIST, will be the banner year.
And 60 far the committee has not
lost one penny The Normal School.
Colorado College, and the Central Bus
mess college of Denver have given a
number of annual scholarships, and
assistance has been given eighty girls
willing, ambitious worthy girls. good
citizens of Colorado, who have shown
themselves capable Of making the most
of themselves and OF the children plac-
ed in their care.
The only requisite for making loan
is that the application must be &C
companied by q Recommendation from
a federated club and the benefciary's
promise, upon securing employment,
to repay at the rate Of $40 a month.
To the unthinking person 1t may
seem strange that a girl who has lived
all her life in one place. has the
respect and good wishes Of all who
know her, graduates from the local
high school, is ambitious, anxious to
become self supporting in the line she
feels the best fitted for. but has no
means, and finds no one ready to help
her.
But when one really takes the
thought home, would he or would
many of his friends put their hands
in their pockets and hand over the
money necessary to carry girl thru
college or through the normal school,
when she has absolutely no security
to offer for the return OF the money
except her own word?
Count the people in your own town
to whom you would apply. Money Is
money. and the average citizen does
not let it get away from him unless
there is a mighty good prospect OF get
ting it back.
Cases have come to the knowledge
of the committee where ten and twelve
per cent interest has ben charged
on a loan of one and two hundred dol
lars.
One of the finest students. according
to the president in one OF our best In
stitutions. with a small capital to start
on nut herself through three year,
of the course by assisting in the girls