2009 Scholarship Award

Kathryn M. "Kate" Lundvall of Richmond, Virginia, is the 2009-10 recipient of the Virginia Society's Scholarship Award Program. The VSSR established the program in 1989 to recognize outstanding undergraduate and graduate students and "to foster a general interest in and appreciation for the events and people of the American Revolution."

Both descendants and non-descendants of Revolutionary War Patriots are eligible to participate.

Miss Lundvall, a senior at the University of Delaware, wrote an outstanding essay on the public service of her fifth great-grandfather, entitled, "John Marshall, Legal Mind of the American Revolution." Chief Justice John Marshall, Miss Lundvall notes, "has come to be remembered as the creator of the justice system we know today." For more information, please visit www.vssr.org

Pictured L to R: Thomas G. Vance, Virginia Society President; Kathryn M. Lundvall, Scholarship Winner; C. L. Sigmon II, Scholarship Chairman

Photo: N. Douglas Payne, Jr., VSSR Secretary