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HENRY DALTON 2009 SCHOLARSHIP
Qualifications
The Henry Dalton Scholarship is open to any student attending a college or university program in 2009 or 2010 who immigrated to the United States after age seven and whose native language is not English. Click here to access the online scholarship application.
Scholarship Award
$500
About Henry Dalton
After serving in the military during the Korean War as a helicopter mechanic instructor, interpreter, and crew chief, Dr. Enrique Dalton, known affectionately as “Henry,” served as a Senior Linguist for the Bolivian Peace Corp Training Project at Utah State University, Logan, as an instructor for teachers of Spanish and as coordinator of the Peruvian Peace Corp Training Project. Subsequently, in the Bassett Unified School District in CA, he developed a Title VII bilingual bicultural project for K- 6 students, curriculum for Head Start and English as a second language (ESL), and compensatory education programs. Later, he oversaw a Title VII elementary teacher training program and served as a resource for evaluation projects serving over a dozen southern California school districts. He managed the Indian Education program and the Teacher Center in the Fontana Unified School District and served as coordinator of testing, evaluation and staff development for the Moreno Valley Unified School District. Later he worked as a teacher supervisor at the University of California, Riverside and spent many years developing new assessment instruments and educational materials.
Dr. Dalton was proficient in several languages, including German, Spanish, and English, and he was a member of several bilingual education associations. He was a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather and also a beloved friend and colleague. He loved his pets and was known for telling jokes and making people laugh.
SGC is pleased to announce the Henry Dalton 2009 Scholarship. This scholarship honors the memory of Dr. Enrique (Henry) F. Dalton, a life-long educator and pioneer in the field of language and cultural development. His contributions to education included development of a series of internationally acclaimed tests that assessed students’ oral, reading, and writing language proficiency. Dr. Dalton was born on August 27, 1933 and passed away on December 2, 2008.
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