As an applicant to our teacher certification program, you are eligible to apply for the Anna Melvin Hague '05 Memorial Scholarship Award. Anna Hague, Class of 1905, was one of the first women to graduate from Washington College. Anna taught in the Kent County Public Schools and became a principal before World War II. She retired in 1955. The scholarship fund was established in 1992 by Anna’s son and daughter-in-law, Charles ’38 and Virginia Hague ’40, of Millington, Maryland. This award is presented each year to “the junior student whose demonstrated qualities of scholarship, character, and dedication, in the judgment of the Washington College Department of Education, will make the most effective contribution to the field of public education.” (The award is typically worth several thousand dollars.) If you are interested in applying for this award, please include here a 500-word response to the following question: How do you demonstrate the qualities of scholarship, character, and dedication that will make the most effective contribution to the field of public education?