Miriam R. Flynn and Bernard F. Flynn Sr. Farm Workers Scholarship

• Encourage farm field wage workers or children of farm field wage workers. Not intended for ranch or farm owners or proprietors or their children.

• Financial need

• _Priority: _

(1) Graduates of Gerber elementary school

(2) Residents of Tehama County or children of families residing in Tehama County.

—May receive a maximum of 5 times with application.

Bernard F. Flynn and Miriam R. Flynn were farming in Gerber, Tehama County, California at the times of their deaths. The scholarship endowment was created by their children in recognition of their parents’ concern and support of farm workers. The family came to the Northern Sacramento Valley in 1947 as owners of the Stanford Vina Ranch, now the Abbey of New Clairvaus. The senior Flynn had been born to a poor family in Boston, but attended Boston Latin School and earned a degree in engineering from MIT. After working as an engineer in the oil industry, he bought a soap business in the Los Angeles area and became a successful businessman. He was always interested in farming, and he and Miriam purchased several pieces of land in Tehama County. Bernard and Patrick are the eldest of 11 living children of the Flynn’s. One brother, Vincent, died in a plane crash some years ago, and two siblings died as infants. Several member of the family live in the area: Steven lives in Chico; Jane, Vincent’s widow, continues to run the Flynn agricultural interests in Tehama County; Thomas is an ophthalmologist in Red Bluff and Orland; and Bernard, an alum of CSUC, is the vice president of Sacramento River Partners in Chico. Patrick lives in Yorba Linda, Orange County.

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