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2006 Scholarship Recipients
Thanks to alumni and friends, in 2006 the USCA awarded scholarships totaling $23,368 to 24 members. Meet two of these exceptional co-opers!
WILLIAM MALLARD
FROM: Fremont, CA
CO-OP: Casa Zimbabwe
MEMBER SINCE: Fall 2002
MAJOR: Engineering Physics
Recipient of the USCA Alumni Association Grant, awarded on the basis of need and co-op involvement.
The typical college experience: William’s recent projects include developing software for cryogenic fridges, investigating the properties of planar ion traps, and studying symbolic logic and complexity theory in his free time.
William plans on grad school—and after? “I’ll probably end up as a poor research scientist working on something benign in a feeble attempt to explain the universe.” Indeed.
The co-ops as technological utopia: “I’ve learnt skills as a maintenance crew member and as house network administrator. There’s no substitute for a dedicated group of computer nerds living together, learning in parallel.”
William loves his co-op because: “I can’t imagine such a complete collection of quirky individuals spanning the spectrum of weirdness anywhere else.”
SHIRLEY LEI
FROM: San Francisco, CA
CO-OP: Sherman Hall
MEMBER SINCE: Fall 2005
MAJOR: Social Welfare
Recipient of the Brunetta Reid Wolfman Award, awarded on the basis of need to a woman of color residing in an all women’s co-op.
Shirley’s plans for this semester: Aside from working for good grades and having a good time at Sherman Hall, Shirley plans include “ballroom dancing and perhaps finding the will to finish all of my unfinished scarves!”
Co-oper for life: “I want to save the world—one thing at a time. My goal is to work as a social worker and then start my own organization to bridge the services of child welfare with the arts. I would also like to create a business cooperative selling crafts from local artists and designers where the employees all get a share in the profits; I call it progressive capitalism.”
Shirley loves her co-op because: “The co-ops have shown me a different kind of living situation that I never knew existed. And we women can engage in dialogue on almost any topic at any hour of the day!”