Scholarship Program Awards Local Women Advancing Their Careers

The Zonta Club of Key West is pleased to announce the opening of the application period for the Martina Thurmond Ongoing Education Scholarship. The $1,000 award will be provided to a Lower Florida Keys woman at least 30 years of age for use to advance her current career or make a career change through continuing education. Applications must be received by July 29, 2016 by 5:00pm and are now available on the club’s website.

The scholarship’s namesake, Martina Thurmond, is a long time Keys businesswoman and founding member of the Key West Zonta Club. For nearly 60 years, she and her family owned and operated the 8-acre Southern Keys Cemetery on Big Coppitt Key. Since 1982, she operated it solely along with the family’s monument company until 2012, when she sold the business and retired … at age 92.

“Martina is both a pioneer career woman and role model, as well as a respected member of Zonta in South Florida,” said 2016-2017 Key West club President, Lisa Benfield. “It was our honor to lend her name to this scholarship when it was founded in 2014,” added Zonta Literacy Committee Chair, Heather Dow.

More information and the scholarship application form are available on the Zonta Key West website at http://www.zontakeywest.com/zonta-scholarships or by emailing Heather Dow at [email protected] (please reference Martina Thurmond Scholarship in the subject line) or by calling 305-433-0402.