EMILY M. HEWITT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship is administered through a Fund created by the Hewitt family to honor Emily M. Hewitt and to honor a student who shared her love of nature. CBTA is proud to select and award this scholarship on their behalf.

Emily M. Hewitt was a California artist, author, teacher and docent whose life found meaning when communicating her love of Nature to others. To this end, she served as a docent at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, where she authored skits, monologues and audio-visual presentations for visitors. As a University of California and California State College educated teacher, she combined literature and the natural sciences to vibrantly present her lessons.

As the first woman mayor of the City of Oakdale, California, she fought for the preservation of agricultural lands on the fringe of urbanization, and established one of the first recycling centers in the state. As an artist, she captured the essence of the Sierra Nevada, the Pacific Coast, and the Sonoran Desert in oils, watercolors, fabric, clay and other media.

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