Sammie Vander Laan Nursing Scholarship Fund

This scholarship has been established by Mrs. Sammie Vander Laan of Palm Springs, California, because of her commitment to nursing and to helping people. She wanted to be a nurse since she was just six years old. Her goal in life was to help people. Upon graduation from high school and college, this burning desire still existed. Because she has experienced a life-long satisfaction of helping others, Sammie now wants to give something back to her profession by creating this endowed scholarship and thus allowing someone else the same opportunity to enter the field of nursing as she did. Sammie is the wife of the late Joseph Vander Laan who established the Ralph Gelmer Vander Laan scholarship in memory of his brother. That scholarship was renamed the Joseph and Ralph Gelmer Vander Laan Scholarship when Joseph passed away in the early 1990’s.