Cindy Sheehan gives Geraldine Cabero the 2007 Casey Sheehan Memorial Scholarship in the LMC Little Theatre at the conclusion of "Freedom and Liberty in the 21st Century"

Scholarships

The Carla Zilbersmith Scholarship for The Performing Arts is awarded yearly to an LMC Drama or Music student who has shown exceptional ability and courage in the performing arts. It is named after former Professor Carla Zilbersmith, a gifted singer and performer, who helped in the re-establishment of the LMC Drama Dept and was the esteemed and very popular Chair of the Theatre Department for The College of Marin for 15 years. Ms Zilbersmith was stricken with ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease in 2007, and continues to bravely battle with this devastating and deadly illness

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The Mathew Shepard Memorial Scholarship was created in honor of the young gay man who was brutally murdered and whose story was dramatized in The Laramie Project. The Drama Dept. produced The Laramie Project and students and faculty were so moved by it they decided to create this scholarship.

The Casey Sheehan Memorial Scholarship was created in 2006 and presented for the first time to Geraldine Cabero by activist and mother, Cindy Sheehan. It is to honor all the soldiers who died in Iraq and to promote non violent methods to resolve issues between people and among nations.

Anyone can apply.