2008 Klausman Scholarship Available to Women Business Students
The Zonta Club of Corvallis is offering one $2,400 Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship to a woman undergraduate studying business. The winner is also eligible for district and national Klausman scholarships. Applications are due April 28, 2008.
2008 Scholarship Applications Available
The Zonta Club of Corvallis is offering ten $2,400 scholarships to eligible OSU and Linn Benton students. Applications are due March 28, 2008.
About Zonta
What is Zonta?
Zonta is a Native American word (Lokota-Sioux) meaning honest and trustworthy.
Zonta International is a worldwide service organization of professionals working together to advance the status of women. Over 36,000 members in more than 1,000 clubs in 71 countries join to participate in projects supporting women. Zonta offers opportunities for service, professional growth, networking, and fellowhip. Zonta International unites women and men in the pursuit of a common goal—to advance the status of women worldwide, giving them the collective strength to help individual women the world over realize their potential.
Zonta has been an active supporter of the United Natoins since it was founded in 1945 and currently holds Non-Governmental Organization status at the United Nations and maintains active representatives at UN sites in Geneva, New York, Paris, and Vienna.
Who are Zontians?
Zontians are accountants, consultants, counselors, doctors, educators, farmers, scientists, and much, much more. We care about our community, are involved, and contribute our time and energies to help others. We share a special friendship with each other as we engage in service together.
Zonta Blessing
We give thanks today for this food
Help us to honor Zonta’s code
To be in all things fair and square
And grant lasting peace
To every nation, everywhere.
Zonta Code
To pledge myself to uphold and practice the ideals of Zonta.
To honor my work and to consider it an opportunity of service.
To increase the measure of that servie by constant self-improvement.
To contribute by study and action to the improvement of the legal, political, economic, and professoinal status of women.
To work for the advancement of understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of executives in business and the professions united in the Zonta ideal of service.
To keep before me the best of all creeds.
“Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do you even so unto them.”
Zonta Committees
Get a complete list of Zonta Committees, responsibilities and members.