2025 UPDATE!  

The Alumni Scholarship Fund now has an offiicial home at BOLD.org. Tax deductible donations can be made on the website. BOLD will also host the scholarship application page. Due to the set-up process, the page won’t be ready for students to use to apply for the scholarship by the May deadline; but two $500 LHS Alumni Scholarships will still be presented at Senior Awards Night on May 29th. The scholarship application page will launch in August or September so it will be available for the class of 2026.

Celebrating 50 years since graduating from Lawndale High is a big deal! 50 years! It is a true milestone, one that deserves a legacy. In recognition of our graduation from LHS in 1974, we are inaugurating the Alumni Scholarship Fund which will award a college bound LHS Senior with a scholarship! 

The selection of the student is made with the help of the counseling staff at LHS. And for the funding this first year, ASF donations are being accepted on our reunion GoFundMe page.  We are still exploring options for the best way to accept donations and administer the scholarship award.

We hope that alumni from all classes – from the first graduating class in 1962 to the more recent graduates of the 2020s – embrace the concept of paying it forward within our Cardinal family and contribute to the Alumni Scholarship Fund.  We also hope that as other classes plan milestone reunions, whether it’s a 10 year or 60 year, that you participate in awarding a scholarship as part of your reunion celebration and keep this legacy going. 

Alexandra Calderon is the 2024 Alumni Scholarship Recipient! She will be presented a $500 scholarship check by Mary (Rezzuti) Sutherland and Merrilee (Willis) Green at Senior Awards Night on May 30th, from 6pm - 8pm, at LHS. All alumni are welcome to attend.

Alexandra applied to 12 colleges/universities and was accepted into 9; she will be attending UCLA and majoring in Biochemistry. Alexandra is considering a career as a nurse, chemist or scientist. She is a first-generation college-bound student.
You can learn more about Alexandra here.   

On Thursday, May 30, 2024 at Lawndale High's Senior Awards Night, Mary Rezzuti Sutherland presented a $500 check to Alexandra Calderon, the first recipient of an LHS Alumni Scholarship! We hope this becomes a reunion tradition. The LHS Cardinal family is made up of many generations. It is great fun to celebrate the memories of our time at LHS; but our hope is we can also celebrate the futures of the most recent graduates - the newest alumni - by annually providing a graduating Senior with the gift of a scholarship to help launch them into the next phase of their lives. As Mary said that night: "It was great to see these young people that worked so hard. The mom in me wanted to hug them all."

Thank you to all who helped make this scholarship possible!   

Leslie, Mary, & Merrilee