Sedalia Business Women
The monthly meeting of Sedalia Business Women was held Aug. 6 at the Sedalia Shrine Club.
Michelle Franklin, President, called the meeting to order. The invocation was given by Debbie Ulmer. Valerie Dent introduced eleven guests.
The program was under the direction of the Scholarship Committee, Linda Fisher and Heather Lynn Co-Chairman. The SBW 2026 Scholarship recipients are Chaundra Shults, Kylie Sidwell, Erica Franklin, Crystal Brown and JoDee Lynn. All of these ladies will use the scholarship funds to help them advance to the next level of education in their chosen career path.
The speakers were Amy Sawtelle and Whitney Hamilton from State Fair Community College. They spoke about the TRiO Student Support Services (SSS) that State Fair Community College has to offer. TRiO is a federally funded grant, existing to provide holistic, wrap-around services to students in their undergraduate programs. The grant specializes in providing support via workshops, tutoring, one-on-one Success Coach meetings, degree planning, cultural events, the transfer process to four-year universities and much more. This program was implemented at State Fair Community College September 1, 2000.
Carol Sawyer, Membership chairman installed one new member. SBW members welcome Faith McKinney.
Sedalia Business Women dinner meeting is the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 pm at the Sedalia Shrine Club. Visit our website www.sedaliabwm.org or on Facebook. Email: sbwmail@sedaliabmw.org.
