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   Patti Wilson Byars, author of Separate Fountains, and currently a University Supervisor of Student Teachers at Florida State University, donates most of the proceeds from the sales of her book to "The Separate Fountains Endowed Scholarship Fund" set up in the College of Education. The scholarship is designated for education majors who are "single mothers or children of single mothers" and pays for the student teaching semester.
     Byars' determination to help single mothers springs from personal experience. Patti was widowed at age 38, so she knows what it is like to be a single mother with the responsibility of educating two children. Thus far, six students have received the scholarship  --  three are presently teaching in the Panama City area and three are teaching in Tallahassee.  The scholarship is now offered to only student teachers who want to intern in Leon County Schools and teach in a local school after graduation.
     Byars' career in teaching helped focus her gift on the student teaching semester. In the last 14 years, she has supervised over 200 student teachers. Byars has witnessed the demands placed on student teachers and realizes it is physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting for a student to try to work during the student teaching semester. However, because some students are single mothers or come from single parent homes that lack the financial resources to cover tuition expenses, student teachers often work after the school day to make ends meet.
     When Byars realized that there was no scholarship offered for the student teaching semester, she decided to donate most of the proceeds from the sales of her book, Separate Fountains, to establish a scholarship.
     If you would like to contribute to "The Separate Fountains Endowed Scholarship," please contact Andrew Watkins, Coordinator of Scholarship Development, College of Education, at 850-644-0565 or watkins@coe.fsu.edu. or send a check payable to FSU Foundation, noting "Separate Fountains Fund 2051" on the memo line. Please mail check to:
Florida State University Foundation
2010 Levy Ave., Bldg. B, Suite 300
P. O. Box 3062739
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2739

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