LAFCU awards scholarships to 3 women returning to school for family, career

    Scholarship recipients Rita Ashcroft, Sheri Haviland and Emily Martin, at right, display the framed essays used to select the recipients of LAFCU’s Women Helping Educate Every Lady, or W.H.E.E.L., Scholarships. Each received a $1,000 scholarship for classes at Lansing Community College this fall. Also pictured at the presentation ceremony are, from left, LAFCU scholarship selection committee members Emily White, Alyssa Sliger and Lindsay Walters; and Dan McKean with the LCC Foundation.

    “The ‘LAFCU Women Helping Educate Every Lady’ program supports women taking the initiative to return to school as nontraditional students to meet life goals,” said LAFCU’s Kelli Ellsworth Etchison. “Rita, Sheri and Emily are role models for women want more for themselves and their families.”

    Scholarship recipients Rita Ashcroft, Sheri Haviland and Emily Martin, at right, display the framed essays used to select the recipients of LAFCU’s Women Helping Educate Every Lady, or W.H.E.E.L., Scholarships. Each received a $1,000 scholarship for classes at Lansing Community College this fall. Also pictured at the presentation ceremony are, from left, LAFCU scholarship selection committee members Emily White, Alyssa Sliger and Lindsay Walters; and Dan McKean with the LCC Foundation.