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June 2001 Volume 1, Number 1

Fellowship Foundation Report
Linda McDoniels, President

Founder Region Fellowship had the privilege of being a recipient of $30,000.00 from the estate of Julia "Bess" Combs this past year. We were thrilled with the bequest and plan to make good use of it this next year.

At conference this year the board decided to honor members of Founder Region who were not fellows in memory of and thanks to Bess. We named 8 new fellows on Friday night at conference. Each new fellow had given to the Fellowship program of her time and effort and we wish to say thank you once again to each of them.

We were also pleased to present four Fellowships to women in the graduate programs at UC Berkeley. Because of the generosity of the members of Founder Region we were able to give $27,500.00 this year. More than has ever been presented to the candidates.

Each of the four recipients were exceptional in their field. The winners encompassed all six programs of service. We gave $5,000.00 to Elizabeth Anderson for her work in the field of education; $5,000.00 to Yan Mei Wang for her work with superconductors; $7,500.00 to Kathleen Lee for her work in the field of international goodwill and understanding and $10,000.00 to Alexis Abramson for her work in the field of mechanical engeerning.

We planted the seeds of Fellowship on Friday evening and by 10:30am Saturday morning we had sold six hundred seed packets. For each 100 packets we were able to draw one number and award a fellowship to that member. All six of the new fellows were excited and thrilled at winning her fellowship.

The Fellowship board would like to take this opportunity to once again thank the members of Founder Region for their continued and generous support of the Permanent Identifying Project of Founder Region, our Fellowship program.