LEBANON VALLEY

Germansville resident

studies abroad

Elianna Fitzpatrick, Germansville, is one of 10 students awarded a Zerbe Scholarship to help offset study abroad costs as of May 20 at Lebanon Valley College, Annville.

The scholarship offers funding to students who wish to earn three or more credits in a country where the language of the major or minor is the language of instruction.

Fitzpatrick, a graduate of Northwestern Lehigh High School, is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in global studies and international business.

Fitzpatrick will study abroad in Costa Rica.

This is a faculty-led program with classes in Spanish and cultural excursions led by Dr. Gabriela McEvoy.

Grace Zerbe, Class of 1930, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Lebanon Valley College.

She worked as a teacher and professor of Latin and French.

The funds from the Hobson Zerbe Trust, which enable the college to offer this scholarship, were donated for the “stimulation of the modern and classical foreign languages and improvement of international relations through good foreign language study.