Cuba-themed fundraiser garners cash for scholarships
Sun Gazette News
05/15/2022
The Women’s Club of Great Falls Scholarship Fund garnered $53,000 through its inaugural “Havana Night” fund-raiser, which drew together 150 people to support scholarships for local college students.
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Holly Ann Kuga Endowment
Great Falls Connection
03/30/2022
A scholarship fund is established in Holly Kuga’s name to support the education of deserving women students in Northern Virginia seeking upper-level degrees.
Old Glory Donates VIP Experience
Old Glory DC
03/28/2022
Old Glory DC & The Women’s Club of Great Falls Scholarship Fund is pleased to announce a partnership based on the two organizations’ common core values of education and community.
Representatives from both groups came together on March 26, 2022, in Leesburg, VA, in celebration of International Women’s History Month to honor the winner of the “With Her” Award, Margaret Dessypris Thomas.
New scholarship fund honors memory of Women’s Club stalwart
Sun Gazette News
03/28/2022
Kuga was a long-standing member of the Women’s Club and a beloved friend and supporter of the Scholarship Fund who died in December 2020 as a result of a tragic car crash. The funds raised for Kuga’s endowment, which total just over $34,000, were a culmination of donations from friends and family in conjunction with the Scholarship Fund’s 2021 Spring Tea fund-raiser, held in her memory.
Scholarships bestowed at Spring Tea in Great Falls
Sun Gazette News
05/03/2021
Great Falls Friends & Neighbors at its annual Spring Tea on April 25 bestowed scholarships on four local women who are attending college.
This year’s scholarship winners, who attend George Mason University and received $1,500 each.
Great Falls Friends and Neighbors Hosts Spring Tea
Great Falls Connection
04/28/2021
Great Falls Friends and Neighbors member Sally-Anne Andrew Pyne, who spearheaded the establishment of a GFFN Scholarship Fund in the memory of selfless club member Holly Ann Kuga (1947-2020), joins Kuga’s daughter Katherine Kuga Wenner and husband of 50 years, Dr. Robert E. Kuga of Great Falls, at the GFFN Scholarship Fund Spring Tea 2021.
Helping Women Achieve Their Academic Goals
Great Falls Connection
12/02/2020
Great Falls Friends and Neighbors Scholarship Fund announced the creation of the Doris Fisher Irwin Endowment, inspired by their founder and funded through a 2019 bequest by
her husband George.
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Great Falls Group Starts Scholarship for Mason Students
Sun Gazette News
12/03/2020
Great Falls Friends & Neighbors Support Local Charities
Great Falls Gazette
10/07/2020
Club hosts its annual kick-off luncheon, announces scholarship winners.
