The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-13


the federation will find the constitution
at that place for signature.
An explanation of the purpose and
use of the federation scholarship fund,
is made in the following article winch
was read before the last meeting of the
association, by Mrs. D. L. McEachron:
THE president has asked me to tell
the story of the educational work of
the federation, and 1 am glad, for L
believe in it and know something of
it's possibilities. This work was begun
five years ago at the close of Mrs. w.
A. McCarter's administration, and in
terest in it in the federation has con-
tinued ever since, though it has not
grown as the author of it hoped it
would, I sure, nor has the commit
tee ever had at its disposal the funds
it might have used and has often been
appealed to for.
"A few requirements were made in
the beginning, governing the use of the
funds The girl to be helped should
be Topeka girl, high school gradu-
ate, and of such scholarship as would,
in the judgment of the committee, war
rant helping her to further study, and
she should have the money without in
terest, with the understanding that she
should return it two years after gradu-
alton, when she had had the opportunl-
ty of earning something. To create
as the ~ahburn scholarship-each
club member was to contribute annual
" ten cents and to secure from some
one else another ten cents. At that
time there were 500 members, which
would mean 100, nearly enough for the
tuition of two girls, enough to help one
girl substantially besides her tuition
Now this extra ten cents has always
been a stumbling block in the way of
some of our club women. 1t was the
thought in the mind of the author OF
the movement, not that every club
woman in Topeka could give, with no
very great sacrifice, 20 cents to move
ment so far reaching in it's results,
but by asking half of it from some
woman not a club member, she would
be advertising both the college and
the federation. Some of the clubs
have given but 10 cents annually, others
have given %, but 1 think that in few
instances has the original advertising
plan been carried out. The first year
$50 35 was collected. the second year
Salts, each year showing an increase
in the collections. We have collected
during the years since its founding
$3.50. S8, and have helped five girls. One
girl used the fund two years, the soph-
omore and Junior years, stayed out
and taught a year, and is this year
graduating from college, one OF the
finest girls in the class. Another girl,
because of a death in her home had
to give up a college career and turn
wage Garner. A third girl used the
fund all of last year, and is in school
this year with the help of $35, secur-
ed outside of the federation by your
committee. She will grad |
uate in June and is well fitted to earn I
money now to help five or six younger |
brothers and sisters, which she is am |
bilious to do A fourth girl used the |
fund part of one term, and then be-
cause of illness had to give up her |
school work She was motherlesS
girl, so anxious for an education that
she was attempting to work for her
BOARD and clothes, at the same time
loing her college work. We had no
money except what would pay her
tuition, because we were already pay
ne for our third girl. After breaking
Down she returned to US the unused
tuition. The fifth girl is in college now.
L bright talented girl, q. member of