Each year, a $1,000 scholarship to a community college or vocational/career college is available to Sisterhood members and their children. This scholarship was started in 1974 in memory of National President, Mildred Sorensen. For the last 50 years, this scholarship has been dependent upon yearly donations. At the present time, there is only funding for one more scholarship. At the spring board meeting, your National Board decided we should start a fundraising campaign to raise $25,000 to make this scholarship an endowed scholarship. This means we would have enough interest yearly to use that money for the scholarship and thus it would continue without future donations.
The board decided to start this fund-raising campaign with $3,000. This was the money made from the Solvang trip because of all the donations of time and supplies for this trip that the people in Solvang generously provided.
We hope you, too, will help us reach our goal of $25,000 before the 2027 National Convention. If we all work together, we can do it!!
A little about Mildred Sorensen, from the February 1974, Danish Sisterhood News:
Mildred “Millie” Sorensen, was initiated into Enighed Lodge #84, Newark, New Jersey in June 1944. She was elected to her first lodge office in 1950, attended her first district convention in 1954 and first national convention in 1958. She was elected to the position of National Trustee at this convention. Her next National office was National Vice President and then she moved on to National President. She was unable to complete this term as she passed away while in office. Secretary of Lodge #84 in 1974, Elinor Dayke, wrote the following, “The jobs she held in the lodge can’t begin to tell the whole story of Sister Millie. Her presence and spirit were what made her our leader.”