Annette Chandler Scholarship

Selection statement of purpose
Scholarships within the college are awarded to provide financial support based on need, academic achievement, and/or other specified criteria as determined by the fund agreement for Donor/Gift Funded scholarships or the awarding department for Institutional/Departmental scholarships.
The donor sets the criteria for recipient selection (i.e., financial need, field of study). Scholarships are awarded for one academic year. Institutional funded scholarship selection criteria will be determined prior to review and selection of applicants and will be documented annually.
After graduating and earning her teaching certificate, she taught English, journalism, and social studies for thirty- two years in Adams County School District #1 and Mapleton Public Schools. Annette’s first love was teaching, and she was passionate about traveling the world and documenting her travels with photographs. Her travels took her to Russia, Peru, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Chile, Mexico, England, Syria, Jordan, Greece, Egypt, and India. The students she taught were lucky to experience her enthusiasm for life, her love of reading and writing, her historical costumes, to see her travel slides, and hear stories about wild experiences on her trips.
Annette loved her dogs; they were her children. She often talked about the dogs she’s had over the years and how much she loved and missed them. It wasn’t surprising that when Annette retired from teaching, she started a new career as a volunteer at the Denver Dumb Friends League. Annette had many jobs there, but her favorite was walking dogs, sometimes up to six hours a day. In 2013 she was chosen as DDFL’s Volunteer of the Year. This was a great honor for her and something she was very proud of.
Annette was a voracious reader. She loved books, magazines, and newspapers. She read the Denver Post cover to cover every day and looked forward to the New York Times on the weekend. She was up before dawn every day, waiting for her papers to arrive so she could get started reading and working on the crossword puzzles. Annette loved gardening and her colorful pots and perennial gardens were beautiful every year. Her favorite thing was spring and planting pansies as soon as they came out. For many years she bemoaned her overenthusiastic purchases as she was planting pansies for weeks, tucking them in everywhere she could.
We encourage students to express gratitude, and so thank you letters can be written to Darlene Linder and Mary Beth Murphy.
Selection Criteria
Applications are reviewed holistically, and selection criteria may include, but is not limited to, academic record, leadership experience, extracurricular involvement, community service, employment, essays, and in some cases, financial need as determined by the FAFSA/CASFA.
Essays: Quality of writing and content are weighed heavily.
Financial Need: The FAFSA and the Colorado Application for State Financial Aid (“CASFA”) are the mechanisms approved for calculating financial need for need-based scholarship awarding.