SAILING NEWS
Dec. 4, 2003 For immediate release

Nominations Open For Linda Elias Sailing Scholarship

The Linda Elias Scholarship Committee will accept nominations for the 2003 award through Jan. 20. It will be presented Feb. 1.

Elias, 52, a member of the Long Beach (Calif.) Yacht Club, died last January after a nine-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was a three-time winner of the prestigious Women's One-Design Championship, now renamed in her memory, and helmsman for several Transpacific Yacht Races, as well as many races to Mexico.

According to the Deed of Gift, the purpose of the Linda Elias Sailing Scholarship is "to present grants to individuals who have advanced the sport of sailing by their own accomplishments or by assisting others. This is what Linda Elias represented in doing so much for others. The grants may be presented to students, other foundations, men or women, persons that have fared well with their own accomplishments, have assisted someone else to advance their abilities or have enabled others to experience the sport of sailing."

Nominations may be mailed to Michael Elias/Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 3919, Long Beach, CA 90803; faxed to (562) 596-9418, or e-mailed to melias51@hotmail.com.

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