{"id":422,"date":"2025-08-29T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:38:51","slug":"scholarships-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/scholarships-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships for Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A98753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0007-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Marie P\u00e9rier with a smile and downcast eyes.\" class=\"wp-image-119\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0007-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0007-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0007.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup><sub>Marie P\u00e9rier (Belgium), x-class of 1949, Mount Holyoke News, April 30, 1948.<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A98753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0008-586x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Newsclipping of paragraph from\" class=\"wp-image-117\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0008-586x1024.jpg 586w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0008-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/amelia_0008.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup><sub>&#8220;Marie Peri\u00e8r Fund Strives To Raise $3000 For Two More Student Scholarships.&#8221;  Mount Holyoke News, April 30, 1948.<\/sub><\/sup><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The value of international students was felt so strongly that various student-led fundraising efforts caused the creation of new financial awards and fellowships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1948, a student drive raised funds for two new scholarships for students from behind the Iron Curtain to honor Belgian student Marie P\u00e9rier, x-class of 1949, who had fled Nazi occupied Belgium years prior, and died in a plane crash before her sophomore year. Every student organization and every class year donated to the drive, with the single largest donation of $600 coming from the senior class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first of these awards went to Helena Rathauska (Czechoslovakia), class of 1950. When a student from Poland initially chosen as the second recipient faced visa impediments from the Polish government, Mahile Partow (Iran), class of 1951, was chosen instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of international students was felt so strongly that various student-led fundraising efforts caused the creation of new financial awards and fellowships. 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