EMERITI FELLOWSHIPS

The initial campaign to raise money to fund fellowships for graduate students sought to accomplish several objectives, including:

1. To provide financial support to outstanding students who needed financial support and who were often the first in their family to attend college and to pursue a graduate degree.
    
2. To showcase Cal State LA’s outstanding graduate programs and the faculty that make them possible.

These fellowships also provide a vote of confidence to students who are considering further study at the doctoral level and who wish to teach at a university.

Students from all disciplines who meet the minimum requirements are eligible for an Emeriti Fund Fellowship for Academic Excellence.  The number of fellowships awarded, and the amount of the award, varies each year depending on the return on investments of the Emeriti Fellowship Fund Endowment.

Named Emeriti Fund Fellowships for Academic Excellence.  Three of the Emeriti Fund Fellowships for Academic Excellence bear the names of the following individuals:

• Carol Smallenburg, a former professor of Education who was instrumental in creating the Association’s Fellowship Program;
   
• Sidney Albert, a founding member of the Cal State LA Emeriti Association; and
   
• James M. Rosser, president of Cal State LA from 1979 – 2013, and who was a strong supporter of the Association.

Eligibility:

Full-time enrollment and classified graduate standing in a master’s degree program in any field, minimum 3.5 GPA, evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.

The second category of awards administered by the Association are the 13 named, endowed scholarships and fellowships.  The Named, Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships were established by individuals or groups in memory of, or to honor, someone, or they bear the name of the donor or donors.  These awards, for undergraduate or graduate students, as specified by the donors, are for students pursuing degrees in the specific academic areas specified by the donors, and their descriptions follow below, in alphabetical order.

• Brodwin Family Undergraduate Scholarship/Graduate Fellowship
  
  Professor Emeritus Martin Brodwin from Cal State LA’s College of Education came to the campus in 1988 from Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, CA, where he was the Coordinator of Research in the Vocational Services Department.  He also served as Director of Clinical Rehabilitation Services in Los Angeles, and, with his wife, established a counseling agency.  Professor Brodwin has a long and impressive record of commitment and contributions to the field of rehabilitation counseling and to students pursuing a degree in the field, including numerous books and articles and distinguished service on professional boards.  Among his many awards are the 2004 CSU systemwide Wang Family Excellence Award and the Cal State LA President’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2005 – 2006.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Undergraduate Scholarship:  Full-time junior or senior students majoring in Rehabilitation Services; minimum 2.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
  
  Graduate Fellowship:  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Counseling, Rehabilitation Option; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Costello Brown Scholarship/Fellowship in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Geology or Physics
  
  Costello L. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Cal State LA.  Among his other duties while at Cal State LA from 1969 – 2005, he served as Associate Dean and Acting Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. For more than 20 years during his Cal State LA tenure, he also served as a senior associate and consultant with the Quality Education Minority Network (QEM).  He is a former National Science Foundation Division Director, where he worked primarily to provide systemic grants to both urban and high poverty rural K-12 school districts, as well as tribal colleges and universities.
  
  Professor Brown received a PhD degree in organic chemistry at Iowa State University of Science and Technology and a BA in chemistry from Hampton University.  Throughout his career he worked to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science, engineering, and mathematics.  As an African American who was born and educated in the rural segregated, high poverty schools of the southeastern US, he identifies with /Cal State LA students and the economic challenges that they encounter on a daily basis.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Undergraduate Scholarship:  Full-time junior or senior in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Geology, or Physics; minimum 2.8 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
  
  Graduate Fellowship:  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Geology, or Physics; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Roland L. Carpenter Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship/Graduate Fellowship
  
  After working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a research scientist, Professor Emeritus Roland L. Carpenter joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Cal State LA to establish its Astronomy program.  Professor Carpenter was known for his outstanding teaching of astronomy and related courses.  For many years he supervised and mentored all students—graduate and undergraduate—who did research in astronomy and astrophysics.  He retired in 1994.  The Roland L. Carpenter Memorial Fellowship was established in 2018 by his wife, Emerita Professor of Education Dorothy Keane.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Undergraduate Scholarship:  Full-time junior or senior students in the Physics BA Program, with the Astrophysics Option; minimum 3.0 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
  
  Graduate Fellowship:  Full- or part-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Physics,, whose coursework and/or research interests include astronomy or astrophysics; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Bill Darrough, Eleni Pitsiou-Darrough, and Athena Fellowship
  
  Bill Darrough, Emeritus Professor in Sociology, received a BA from Whittier College, and MSW from UC Berkeley, and a PhD from University of British Columbia.  While at UBC he worked on the Royal Inquiry into the non-medical use of drugs.  During his career at Cal State LA, from 1973 – 2002, he was a member of and director of the PALS peer mentoring program and served as Consulting Sociologist on the Kolts Commission examining training and use of force issues in the LA County Sheriff’s Department.
  
  Eleni Pitsiou-Darrough, Emerita Professor in Sociology, received BA degrees at the British Council Institute in Athens, Greece, and Stetson University in Florida, and MS and PhD degrees at Iowa State University.  While at Iowa State she worked with the National Center of Social Research in Athens conducting a study on Marital Relations.  During her career at Cal State LA, from 1973 – 2002, she developed 13 courses and a Minor in Aging. She continued her research in Greece and was the director of studies on Adaption to Aging among Older Athenians.  The results were published in two volumes (in Greek and English).  Later, she conducted a study of Elder Abuse in Greece in collaboration with the Law School of the University of Athens.
  
  Athena the beagle enjoyed a 13-year career as a popular member of the Cal State LA community until she retired in Greece.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Sociology; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• David Cameron Fisher Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship/Graduate Fellowship
  
  David, the son of Emerita Professor Janet Fisher-Hoult, was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 29.  A marine biology student, David had established his own firm, Captive Marine Environments, where he designed and built aquariums for homes and businesses including the entertainment industry.  One of his large tanks containing sharks can be seen in the film “Sneakers” which starred Robert Redford.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Undergraduate Scholarship:  Full-time junior or senior students majoring in Biology, preferably in Marine Biology or Environmental Studies; minimum 3.0 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.  In the absence of eligible undergraduate student applicants, the award will made as a Graduate Fellowship.
  
  Graduate Fellowship:  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Biology; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Mary Gormly Memorial Fellowship
  
  After high school graduation, Mary Gormly attended the University of Washington, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor she enlisted in the Navy’s then-new women’s division known as the WAVES. Following her honorable discharge at war’s end, she returned to UW and received a BA in Anthropology in 1947.  She then went to Mexico for graduate study and field research and received an MA from Mexico City College in 1948. Following that project and its publication, she returned to Seattle and UW and received the MLS degree in 1959.  Emerita Professor Gormly joined the staff of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Cal State LA in 1962 as a social sciences librarian, and she retired from the university in 1983.  Her academic and cultural interests were centered in the arts and ethnography of Native American populations.  In 2004, she bequeathed her collection of Native American Art to the University, to be kept in the Library’s Special Collections Division.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program with courses or research projects devoted to areas of interest or concern to native peoples of the Americas; subject fields may include, but are not limited to, Anthropology, Art, Economics, History, Mexican American Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science, or Sociology; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• John L. Houk Memorial Fellowship
  
  Professor Emeritus John L. Houk was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Cal State LA from 1971 – 1983, where he specialized in East Asian Studies.  He authored numerous publications and wrote reports for members of Congress.  He served 9 years as Cal State LA’s Dean of Academic Planning, 10 years as a member of the Center for research in Social Sciences (CRESS), and 3 years with the Legislative Reference Service at the Library of Congress.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Political Science; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• William E. Lloyd Memorial Fellowship
  
  Emeritus Professor William E. Lloyd began his professional career as a working journalist.  During World War II he served as a communications officer on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz, after which he wrote and edited publications for the American Association of School Administrators in Washington, D.C., and established the Office of School and Community Relations for the Richmond VA, public schools.  At Cal State LA he was a professor of Administration and served as Publications Manager for the university from 1959 – 1977.  He also taught and developed information services for news media as well as edited campus publications.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in History, Political Science, or Public Administration; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Dimitrius Margaziotis Memorial Fellowship
  [Description forthcoming]
   
• Leonard Mathy Fellowship in Economics
  
  Emeritus Professor Leonard Mathy was a professor of Economics at Cal State LA from 1950 – 1986.  He served as the founding chair of the Department of Economics, the founding dean of the, then, School of Letters and Sciences and as Dean of Instructional Administration at the university level. He was also the founding chair of the Academic Senate at Cal State LA and the founding chair of the Statewide California State University Academic Senate.  In 2005, the Cal State LA Academic Senate bestowed on him the title of ‘Pater Senatus’.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Eonomics; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• Jane Matson Memorial Fellowship
  
  Jane Matson, emerita professor of Counselor Education at Cal State LA from 1958 – 1980, was a US Navy veteran and became a licensed psychologist who served as Counseling Psychologist for the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles after World War II.  She was a specialist in counselor training and coordinated the Cal State LA Community College Training Program, served as chair of the Commission on Junior College Student Personnel Programs, founded the first federally-funded institute to train community college student personnel workers, and developed a community college curriculum for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time graduate students enrolled in a master’s degree program in Counselor Education or other area of counseling or social service preferred; classified graduate standing; minimum 3.5 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.
   
• William A. Taylor Memorial Scholarship/Fellowship
  [Description forthcoming.]
   
• Vicente Zapata Undergraduate Scholarship
  
  Emeritus Professor Vicente Zapata began his tenure at Cal State LA in 1978 in the Health Sciences (Public Health) Program and taught until 1999.  During this period he served as chair of the Department of Health Science and continued after it became the Department of Health and Nutritional Science.  His academic preparation includes graduate degrees in education from the Central University of Ecuador and in Public Health from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of California, Los Angeles.  He began his professional career with the LA County Department of Public Health as a health educator and later as an administrator.  He was instrumental in opening and organizing programs and health services at the El Monte Comprehensive Health Center in El Monte, CA.  Under his leadership, a proposal was developed for the university to establish a MPH program in Environmental Health, and the development of the 1981 Public Health Plan for the LA Country Department of Health Services.  He is the author of the book, Health: An International Bond.
  
  Eligibility:
  
  Full-time junior or senior students pursuing a degree in the Department of Public Health or a BS degree in Nutritional Science; minimum 2.75 GPA; evidence of university and/or community service; and financial need.

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Each year the Cal State Los Angeles Emeriti Association funds and awards a number of graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships.

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