Bozeman BPW Scholarship
2010 Winners

Heather Lytle:
Heather Lytle is completing her degree in Nursing at Montana State University.  She will graduate in May 2011.  Her general goal in life is “to support the underprivileged of this world that they might receive the most efficient and effective physical, emotional and spiritual support they deserve.”  Her accomplishments include working with AIDS orphans in Africa for four years with Music for Life.  She served as a volunteer tour leader with the African Children’s Choir and led 72 children from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa as they performed in venues that ranged from tiny churches to the G8 Summit in 2006, performing before 200,000 people.  This provided full educational sponsorships through university level for these children.  She also served as a field director in Nkomazi, South Africa, where she helped train a local team that now runs relief and development programs for 400 orphans in eleven villages and developed a registered boarding school for 42 orphaned students.  Last summer she went as part of a medical team from Helena to provide services to the poor of Mozambique.  This summer she will be working on an internship at the Mayo Clinic in pediatrics.  Her future goal is to become a Nurse Practitioner and with Montana as her home base, become involved in establishing clinics for women and children in Africa.

Christina Waller:
Christina Waller will be starting her Masters Degree program in Sustainable Food Systems at Montana State University in the fall of 2010.  She obtained a BS degree from MSU in 2006 with a major in Food and Nutrition and minors in Business Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship.  She is employed by the Community Food Co-Op and in three years has risen to Manager of the offsite Central Kitchen, overseeing over 25 employees.  The Kitchen produces the wonderful, healthy prepared food sold by the Co-Op.  She has developed the recipes that utilize local ingredients and yield the best and healthiest products at the lowest cost.  Her future goal is to be a teacher of sustainable gardening practices, “nutritional principles and cooking skills to children and families as a means to combat the growing epidemic of obesity in this country.”  She also dreams of owning her own small, sustainable farm where these classes could be taught in conjunction with her continued work at the Co-Op

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