MCCF To Administer McIntire Scholarship, Partner With Oldest Company In Ohio
The Muskingum County Community Foundation is pleased to announce it will oversee the scholarship administration of the John McIntire Scholarship Fund, as part of a new collaboration with the Zanesville Canal & Manufacturing Company.
Virginia Mae Everett was born in 1904 in Muskingum County, the second of five children in an agriculturally focused family. Her mother died in 1914 before her tenth birthday, and when her father remarried, she gained two additional stepsiblings.
New Soroptimist Fund Hopes to Help Women in Need
The Muskingum County Community Foundation offers scholarships to help cover expenses of higher education thanks to the establishment of several scholarship funds. MCCF is now pleased to announce the establishment of a new fund that helps one local organization achieve their goals.
Nestled outside of Maysville Elementary School sit three benches that form a horseshoe. A small gaggle of third graders spread themselves among the benches and settle in for story time. Across from them is a rocking chair, currently occupied by their teacher, that faces the benches for any storyteller to sit and read aloud to eager students. In the short distance, a wooden structure in the shape of a house stands with a small plaque that reads: “Lending Library – the best books are shared. Give a book, take a book.”