Cheryl Naslund Scholarship

2019

Congratulations to Rita Foran and Julie Zick, this year’s recipients of the Cheryl Naslund Memorial Scholarship to attend the NYLA/SSL Carol A. Kearney Educational Leadership Institute! The scholarship, which honors a school librarian who valued life-long learning, covers the cost of a full conference registration and hotel.

Cheryl Naslund

Cheryl was the librarian at Union-Endicott High School, a driving force in the Binghamton University women's group, a member of the Indian Cultural Center, a volunteer ski instructor for the Greek Peak Adaptive Ski Program, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a part-time PhD student in the School of Education at BU, a mother of six who took numerous additional foreign students under wing, and a founding member of the Red Poodle Society. She was an avid traveler and adventurer, scuba diver, photographer, art walker, museum goer, a gourmet cook specializing in world cuisines, a generous and frequent host, an unparalleled copy editor, frequent rail trail walker (with her love Tamarind the Red), passionate learner, English, Spanish, and French speaker, internet guru for many local organizations and desperate students in her library, and social chairman for her husband and for half of the Binghamton area as well.