Miriam J. Burlingame Endowed Sch. for Respiratory Care

Established in 1995, the Miriam J. Burlingame Endowed Scholarship for Respiratory Care provides tuition assistance for first and second-year Respiratory Care students with financial need who have demonstrated potential for success in Respiratory Care.

In addition to the scholarship provided by the Burlingame’s, they were supportive of the Sandhills Community College Landscape Gardening Program. There is room named in their honor in the Ball Garden Visitors Center at the college.

Mrs. Burlingame was born in Aberdeen to the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson. She graduated from Randolph Macon College. She was in charge of the North Carolina Exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where she met her future husband, the late Westcott Burlingame Jr. They were married in Aberdeen in 1940. The Burlingame’s lived in Rochester, N.Y., where she was a homemaker and active in volunteer work, and they moved to Forest Hills in Aberdeen in 1977. Mrs. Burlingame was a member of Bethesda Presbyterian Church, and served as a volunteer at the Southern Pines Civic Club and Moore Regional Hospital. For her pastimes, she enjoyed sewing, reading, gardening, playing bridge and traveling.

_Establecida en 1995, la Beca de Cuidados Respiratorios Fundida por una Donación Miriam j. Burlingame provee asistencia para la matrícula de los estudiantes que estudian Los Cuidados Respiratorios y que están en su primer o segundo año escolar. Los estudiantes deben mostrar necesidad financiera y potencial para el éxito en los Cuidados Respiratorios.

Además de donar esta beca, los Burlingame apoyaron al Programa de Paisajismo de Sandhills Community College. Hay un cuarto nombrado por ellos en su honor en la Oficina de Turismo Ball Garden en el campus.

La Sra. Burlingame nació de los difuntos Sr. y Sra. J. Talbot Johnson en Aberdeen. Se graduó de Randolph Macon College. Estaba a cargo del North Carolina Exhibit en la Feria de New York World en 1939, donde se conoció con su marido futuro, el difunto Westcott Burlingame, Jr. Se casaron en Aberdeen en 1940. Los Burlingame vivieron en Rochester, Nueva York, donde ella era ama de casa y una voluntaria activa, y ellos se mudaron a Forest Hills en Aberdeen en 1977. La Sra. Burlingame era socia de la Iglesia Presbiteriana Bethesda y sirvió como voluntaria en el Club Civic de Southern Pines y en el Hospital Regional de Moore. Como pasatiempos, ella disfrutó de coser, leer, trabajar en el jardín, jugar a bridge, y viajar._

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