Agnes Dix Memorial Scholarship

• Scholarship for students in upper division nursing courses based on scholarship and financial need.
• Award to highly able students to enable them to complete their program which acute financial need might make impossible.

Ms. Agnes Dix devoted her life to the poor and to education. She helped people and was motivated to work with immigrants; she encouraged them to finish their educations. Mrs. Regina Picetti, sister of Agnes Dix and former donor of this scholarship, was one of the few female nurses in combat in the Pacific in World War II. She was a war hero and became a county health nurse in San Benito County in Hollister, CA. She died in August 1997. This scholarship was established in memory of Agnes Dix, by Regina Picette and brother, Frances Dix, to support Nursing students. Scholarship for students in upper division nursing courses based on scholarship and financial need. Award to highly able students to enable them to complete their program which acute financial need might make impossible.
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