Scholarship Winner 2025

Elizabeth Tilley Howland Scholarship Award Winner for 2025

This year's Elizabeth Tilley Howland Scholarship winner is Merin Haussman.  Merin is a graduate student enrolled in Adult Studies at DeSales University. She is pursuing an MBA/MSN and is currently a wound care nurse manager at St Luke’s University Health Network. She previously earned a BSN from East Stroudsburg University in 2019. She is the granddaughter of SMDPA member Plummer Dunkle. 
Congratulations to Merin on a job well done and we wish her success in her future endeavors.

The text of the essay can be found here.  She will be unable to join us for our Thanksgiving Service and Dinner.