Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Mr. Crowston,
I am most grateful for the granting of this scholarship. It will make the load of my upcoming senior year much easier to carry. If I can ever he of service to you or the Suridsh Rite in genial, please do not hesitate to call.

Dear Mr. Larsen and Members of the Scholarship Foundation,

It is my pleasure to update you regarding Krysta Jones, the Scottish Rite scholarship student who volunteered at the RiteCare Spokane clinic during Winter and Spring terms, 2008 and who will return to work with us through autumn this year.

Krysta has been a joy to work with - an excellent selection by the University staff. She is an organized and capable young woman who is pleasant and professional in all her interactions with staff, families and Board members. She arrives on time, has been flexible as circumstances vary, and has worked diligently and attentively to complete all requested assignments. She has undertaken complex tasks with assurance and enthusiasm and has completed less inspiring tasks with grace. Requiring little supervision, she was a wonderful addition to our team and fit well with our clinicians’ style of work. Her extra set of capable hands made it possible for us to target many additional activities (for kids and for the clinic) each week. Krysta was enjoyed and appreciated by staff, children and families alike.

We thank you again for your regular sponsorship of graduate speech pathology students (who express their appreciation regularly as well) and for the exceptional opportunity you have provided us in having a scholarship student here at RiteCare Spokane. The students who have been selected have been top notch and their assistance here has been very much appreciated. From our perspective, the Scottish Rite Scholarship Program connecting with RiteCare Spokane has certainly been a wonderful success this year and we look forward to continued work with graduate scholarship students in the future. We thank you again.

Sincerely,

Michelle Gifford, Clinic Director RiteCare Spokane

A letter from Sonja O’Claire:

Corinne Turner, the Blankinship Speech Language Fellowship recipient for 2008 along with V.P. Winton Smith.

A scan from V.P. Winton Smith (center) from the Bellingahm Evans Fellowship Recipients Breaksfast held in May 2008.

Mr. Crowston,

I hope this email finds you and your wife doing well and enjoying the summer time! Just for a refresher, this is Angie Jeffries and you helped me obtain a Scottish Rite scholarship for the past two years–for that fact I will always be grateful. I am now done in Pullman and will technically graduate from WSU in August, after I have completed my internship with Senator Patty Murray. I am currently living in Kirkland and work in her Seattle District Office, downtown Seattle. I plan on taking this next year to work (right now the pull is Americorps) and then attend graduate school. My life journey has taken me to this side of the state, which is where my question comes to play…

I don’t want to lose touch with my masonic background and this is a new area. I tried calling the Shriners Children’s Hospital to see if there was such a unit in Seattle and I was told there wasn’t. Basically I’m looking for a place to spend some quality time doing the community service I have always found important to provide, but I don’t know who to contact or where to look. Could you put me in contact with someone in this area?

Thanks again for everything and hope to hear from you soon,

Angie Jeffries