Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, DC's
Washington Scots Charity & Education Fund Scholarship Program

Congratulations to the recipients of the grants awarded for the academic year 2008-'09.

• Ms. Cassandra Smith-Christmas has received The Donald Malcolm MacArthur Scholarship of $2,500, for Americans studying in Scotland, as well as a St. Andrew’s Scholarship in the amount of $7,500.  Ms. Smith-Christmas, of Stafford, Virginia, will be working toward a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow.  A champion Scottish fiddler and a linguist with degrees cum laude from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the Universiteit Leiden in The Netherlands, she will be focusing her doctoral work on the preservation of endangered languages – specifically Scottish Gaelic.  Her long-term aims include an academic post in Linguistics, research and teaching contributions to Gaelic language preservation programs, and the creation of a publishing house for children’s books in endangered languages.
  
  
• Ms. Davida L. Connon has been awarded The James & Mary Dawson Scholarship of $5,000, for Scots coming to the USA for graduate or post-graduate level study.  Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, she will be pursuing a Master of Laws degree in International Trade and Development Law at Harvard University’s Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
  
• St. Andrew’s Scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each have been awarded to:
• Ms. Abbie N. Sprague (USA), a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Cambridge University’s Pembroke College in the United Kingdom researching the Scottish-led Arts & Crafts Movement and the Tempera Revival.
• Mr. Ryan R. Gladwin (USA), pursuing a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics at the prestigious Divinity School of the University of Edinburgh.
  
  
• St. Andrew’s Scholarships in the amount of $1,250 each have been awarded to:
• Ms. Elizabeth Anne Gulledge (USA), completing her Doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrews.  Her research concerns business management and the preservation of the creative industries in Scotland.
• Mr. Jonathan M. Kanary (USA), an MLitt candidate in Theology, Imagination & the Arts at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
  
  
• Two Donald Macleay Scholarships, established to support the study and teaching of traditional Scottish Music, in the amount of $500 each have been awarded to Mr. Mac Wade, a promising young piper, and Mr. Tim Kirkpatrick, Pipe Sergeant of the Society’s Pipe Band, to sponsor their attendance at the week-long summer camp program at the North American Academy of Piping and Drumming, in Valle Crucis, NC.