The Roanoke Chapter of The Girl Friends, Inc. is proud to announce that our nominee for the National Girl Friends Fund Scholarship, Lauren Y. Brown, was one of only 12 recipients selected to receive the national scholarship award. The announcement was made at The Girl Friends, Inc. 82nd Conclave in Rio Grande, and Puerto Rico in May.
The Girl Friend Fund provides awards of $1,000 to $1,500 annually for up to four academic years to African-American high school graduates who have been accepted to accredited four-year colleges or universities.
Lauren, a 2017 graduate of E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, will attend the University of Virginia in the fall. She plans to major in architecture and minor in foreign policy to achieve her dream of employment with a firm abroad. Last year, she participated in the AIU High School diplomats program at Princeton University. The social skills she developed through activities/clubs at E.C. Glass, she says, prepared her to earn a full scholarship to take her abroad to Japan this summer through the U.S. High School Diplomats Program for three weeks. Lauren is the daughter of James and Lavern Brown.
Recipients of the Girl Friends Fund Scholarship are top high school seniors nominated by Girl Friends chapters across the country. Lauren is the seventh Girl Friends Fund Scholarship recipient nominated by the Roanoke Chapter. Each year, the chapter seeks as applicants, qualified high school seniors from the Roanoke and New River valleys, and the Lynchburg area.
For 28 years, The Girl Friends Fund, Inc. has fulfilled a philanthropic role in the form of service and financial support to African-American students across the country. The Roanoke Chapter has been recognized as one of the top contributing chapters to The Girl Friends Fund.
Also this year, Kai Washington-Brown, a 2017 graduate of William Fleming High School, received the $750 Roanoke Chapter of The Girl Friends, Inc. annual scholarship. Kai has been accepted into the Honor Academy at Radford University, where she will major in interdisciplinary studies/elementary education, with a minor in dance. She is the daughter of Johnny R. and QuoVadis Washington-Brown.
The Roanoke Chapter also awarded its Constance J. Hamlar Scholarship in the amount of $300 to Paris Tate, a 2017 graduate of E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg. She will enter the University of Virginia in the fall with plans to major in political science, business management and pre-law. Her future plans are to pursue a Doctor of Judicial Science or Doctor of Law. She is the daughter of Triana Ingalise.
