The Mary M. Reardon Endowed Scholarship

Criteria: (Amount Equal to One Full Annual Tuition Award) The Mary M. Reardon Scholarship will be awarded to a student who majors in Early Childhood Education. Preference will be given to, but not limited to, students with some disability or who intend on working with children with some disability.

The Mary M. Reardon Endowed Scholarship was established by Ms. Reardon, Class of 1935, in 1998. Mary was a kindergarten/fourth grade schoolteacher in a number of area schools including Granite Street, Downing Street, and Mill Swan School. She retired from Mill Swan School as a special education teacher after 30 years of service at that school. Mary had taught hundreds of physically disabled children and many kept in touch with her until her death in June of the year 2000. She had a special place in her heart for those educators who work with the physically challenged. Mary herself was legally blind for the last 30 years of her life.