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Congratulations to this year's Lillian Glover Scholarship Recipients of District 37.

      Prutha Parikh of Hoffman Estates High School

      Sarah Long of Palatine High School

History of the Illinois PTA Lillian E. Glover Scholarship:

In 1935, the first state scholarship was established, as Illinois PTA voted to budget $300 annually for a scholarship to be awarded at the University of Illinois.

Over the years, this single scholarship has evolved to encourage college-bound high school seniors, entering the field of education or an education-related field at the college/university of their choice. The Illinois PTA has provided more than $2,400,000 in scholarship monies to those seniors.

Currently two education scholarships in each of the 19 Illinois PTA Districts and ten continuing education scholarships are awarded to help ensure qualified, certified education professionals from every part of the state will be in elementary and secondary classrooms in the future.