The Dorothy Gardiner Lackman ’67 Memorial Endowed Scholarship was established in December 2014 by the Lackman children to assist education majors at Eastern while establishing an appropriate legacy for their mother, who passed away in 2009. After graduating from Eastern, Dorothy began her teaching career in the Eastford School System. She started working at the only pre-school in her hometown of Ashford, Pompey Hollow Nursery School, around 1970, and was credited with introducing Montessori materials into a traditional nursery school environment. The recipient of this minimum $500 award must be a non-traditional Early Childhood Education or Elementary Education major with financial need and in good academic standing. Non-traditional is defined as a student who will be at least 24 years old upon graduating from Eastern.

Students are encouraged to file the FAFSA by March 1