November 29, 2009
A Scholarship for Friendship
Courtesy of Jennifer B. Litchman
The Ames girls in 1981. The group and the author who told their story have endowed a scholarship in memory of Sheila M. Walsh (middle row, far right).
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Courtesy of Jennifer B. Litchman
The Ames girls in 1981. The group and the author who told their story have endowed a scholarship in memory of Sheila M. Walsh (middle row, far right).
A newspaper column that led to a best-selling book this year about the enduring friendship of a group of women from Ames, Iowa, has now spawned a college scholarship.
The winner will be a girl from Ames who not only can show that she's a good student, but also get two buddies to attest that she's a good friend.
The $1,000 scholarship will honor the memory of Sheila M. Walsh, one of 11 girls from the Ames High School Class of 1981 whose years of friendship became the subject of
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