Scholarship Day
April 9-10 is Hood's 2025 Scholarship Day!
During this exciting 36 hours*, donors participate with gifts to the College to ensure opportunities for every Hood student through unrestricted scholarships and financial aid. Their academic studies are enhanced through the generosity of hundreds of individuals to the College’s Hood Fund.
*Scholarship Day begins at noon on April 9 and will conclude at midnight on April 10.
Battle of the Decade Challenge: the decade with the most participants gets all the bragging rights!
Join challengers from all decades (1960s to 2020s) and beyond with their leading participation to reach a goal of 300 donors when you make a gift in support of Scholarship Day.
Gifts of all Sizes Make a Difference.
See the full impact of unrestricted scholarship and financial aid:
2024 WINNER:
Click the Decades below to see final counts for each in 2024!
Special thanks to Mary Atwell in the Hood Archives for the photographic blasts from the past; see each decade below!
FINAL COUNT: 12 alumnae
Janet Hobbs Cotton ’59 challenged at least 5 alumnae to participate from the 1950s.
FINAL COUNT: 41 alumnae
Marylou Herrmann Foley ’64 and Cheryl Brown Dreiling ’69 challenged at least 10 alumnae to participate from the 1960s.
FINAL COUNT: 82 alumni
The Class of 1974 50th Reunion Chairs: Alice H. Dekker '74, M.A. '83, Ann Williams DeMers '74, Magaly Mauras Green '74, M.A.'79, Rev. Deborah F. Kohler '74, and Susan L. Whaley '74 challenged at least 30 alumni to participate from the 1970s.
FINAL COUNT: 38 alumni
Jamie B. Draper '84, Ruthann Kluth O'Connell '84, RaeAnn Butler ’89, and Stacey Collins ’89 challenged at least 30 alumni to participate from the 1980s.
FINAL COUNT: 24 alumni
Carol Deck Montoya ’94, P’26, Marivic E. Sison '94, M.A.'00, Rachel Bagni Beyer ’99 and Stacey Zeno ’99, MBA ’18 challenged at least 20 alumni to participate from the 1990s.
FINAL COUNT: 25 alumni
Jaime Cacciola ’04, Tatiana Santos ’04 and Lisa Wells ’09 challenged at least 20 alumni to participate from the 2000s.
FINAL COUNT: 22 alumni
Ashley Rose Bennett ’14 and Daniel Forgash ’19 challenged at least 25 alumni to participate from the 2010s.
FINAL COUNT: 38 alumni, parents, and friends
New Trustee, Phil Yerby ’11 challenged individuals from the 2020s and beyond (alumni, current students, friends, and parents!) to get us to 200 total donors for Scholarship Day in 2025.
FINAL COUNT: 58 employees
Eric Annis, Melanie Eyler, Sue Kolb, and Craig Laufer challenged 30 Hood faculty and staff to give!
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