Record number of students get scholarships from Vallejo Soroptimists – Times-Herald

By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen

The women of Soroptimist International of Vallejo awarded 11 scholarships of $5,000 each on Monday — the largest amount of money and recipients in the chapter’s history, organizers said.

The Vallejo club was founded in 1939, just 18 years after the original club was chartered in Oakland, chapter president Kathy Hahn said.

Scholarship committee chairperson and Solano County Supervisor Erin Hannigan had to kick in $2,000 to fill the gap between the $55,000 needed to award 11 scholarships and the amount raised at the organization’s biggest annual fundraiser — the Winemaker’s Dinner, in September, she said.

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