MILTON-FREEWATER — Two local students have been awarded scholarships from the PEO Program for Continuing Education. Milton-Freewater PEO Chapter AP announced that Julieta Pulido will receive $2,200, and Jennifer Elizabeth Floch has been awarded $3,000. These grants are awarded to women whose education has been interrupted for at least 24 months and who find it necessary to return to school to support themselves and/or their families.
Julieta Pulido is a graduate of McLoughlin High School and Walla Walla Community College. She has worked as a pharmacy technician and served as a social worker with the Oregon Child Development Council. She is currently studying for a dental hygienist degree at Columbia Basin College. She plans to graduate next year and return to Milton-Freewater to work in a dentists’ office, where her bilingual skills will be most helpful. She has helped translate for a dentist while working for her degree.
Jennifer Elizabeth Floch’s undergraduate degree in community health has enabled her to work among First Nation people in a remote area of Alaska. After a few years, she decided she could be more effective heading up a prevention program, but needed a master’s degree in public health to do the work. She will graduate from Oregon State next year and plans to return to Alaska. Jennifer is the granddaughter of long-time Walla Walla residents Larry Frank and Nancy Berlier.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded in 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a philanthropic and educational organization interested in bringing to women increased opportunities for higher education. Chapter AP was organized in Milton-Freewater in 1928.
For more information contact Meghan Abell at 509-520- 0991.