Photo (left to right): Corresponding Secretary Barbara Timss, Treasurer Glenda Salars, First Vice President Carol Vaughan, President Elect Karan Turner, and President Kathleen Schuster

On Friday, May 9, 2014, the Silver City Woman's Club installed their new officers for the 2014-2016 term.

The scholarship awards presentation followed the installation, and this year winners were Samantha Gomez and Emily Salgado. Following the business meeting, a three salad luncheon was served. The Club's Kitchen Committee prepared the food for the 35 attending members.

Photo (left to right): Victoria Gomez, Vera MacGregor, Samantha Gomez

Each year the Woman's Club Education and Scholarship Committee evaluates multiple scholarship applications. This year's deserving students were Emily Salgado and Samantha Gomez. Pictured is Samantha Gomez, receiving a check for $1,000 from Vera MacGregor the Chair of the Education and Scholarship Committee.

Samantha Gomez plans on earning an Associate Degree in Nursing as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Education from WNMU. She has volunteered at the Silver City Care Center, with the annual Grant County Toy Drive, as an instructor for the Silver High School Summer Cheer Camp, has assisted in religious education classes for elementary children, tutoring elementary children at a local school, and caring for children at the Silver High School daycare.

Emily Salgado, not pictured, is twenty years old and is a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe from Tucson, Arizona. She is a junior at WNMU majoring in Early Childhood Education, and hopes to obtain her Bachelor's degree followed by a Masters degree. Emily has a work-study job at the WNMU Child Development Center and has worked in a classroom of one-year olds. She has also substituted for other teachers and worked with children ranging from six months to five years of age.