Scholarship Winners
In the last five years, we have awarded over $30,000 in scholarships to local high school girls. Our scholarship program started in 1960.
In May 2027, the Woman’s Club of Williamsburg-GFWC awarded $1,500 scholarships to Ella Rea Waldron-Kolloff (Bruton High School), Zymeia Taliaferro (Bruton High School) and Haley Harris (Warhill High School). The Woman’s Club also provided $1,500 to the Virginia Peninsula Community College for financial assistance to Workforce Development students.
Ella Rea Waldron-Kolloff is graduating from Bruton High School and will attend Virginia Tech this fall, where she plans to major in business management. She has repeatedly been on the all-A honor roll and takes multiple Advanced Placement classes. She is a member of the National Honors Society and is the co-host of Panther News, Bruton’s televised student news program. She swims on the varsity swim team and the Queens Lake summer swim team, and qualified for state finals in backstroke this year. She is the volunteer recruitment chair for the Key Club, dances with the School of the Arts dance program and with the Broadway Dance Arts studio. In addition to these school achievements, Ella Rea volunteered in a kindergarten class at Magruder Elementary School and is interning under the manager of a local internal medicine doctors’ office. She works part-time as a hostess at Kingsmill Resort and continues to work at the neighborhood business that she co-founded six years ago that provides pet-sitting and yard work services.
Zymeia Taliaferro will graduate from Bruton High School and plans to attend Norfolk State University to pursue a career in social work. She has earned academic high honors at Bruton and ranks in the top five of her class. She’s a member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society, and tutors her peers in algebra as a member of Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society. Zymeia is also a gifted athlete. She was included in the All-District Second Team, and has served as captain of the girls’ varsity basketball team for four years. She plays second base for the varsity softball team and is a Huddle Leader for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She has also been in the Marching and Concert Bands, is treasurer for the Student Council Association, serves as student liaison for the Gifted Education Advisory Committee, and participates in service activities through the Key Club. In addition to her academic and athletic pursuits, Zymeia works part-time as a hostess at Second Street: An American Bistro, and spends her summers as a student counselor at the Edgar Randall Basketball Camp.