News and Updates

You can’t go Orme again

September 13, 2007

In case ye codgers (alums) out there missed the news, the longstanding Scholars tradition of starting the year with a retreat at the Orme School has ended. The new retreat site, Lost Canyon, outside of Williams, has met with the…


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We Three NSEP

September 11, 2007

Over on the Foundation’s website back in May, Leslie Harris (’01) reported on the latest batch of Scholars named NSEP Scholars–Devin Mauney (’05), Nicole Rennell (’05), and Ben Strauber (’05), whose awards are sponsoring study in, respectively, Brazil, South Africa,…


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Scholars retreat moves from long-time home, begins new traditions

September 11, 2007

For 19 years in a row, the Flinn Scholars program began each year with a retreat at the Orme School, a Southwest landmark with multigenerational ties to the Flinn family. This year, the retreat moved to a new location, Lost…


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Meet Dustin Cox

September 10, 2007

Dustin Cox (’04) was the subject of the April, 2007 installment of the Meet-a-Scholar series on the Foundation’s website. He talks about diversity and politics and hope and the future and stuff.


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Special Feature: Eastern Europe travelogue 2007

June 04, 2007

Every summer the Flinn Foundation escorts an entire class of Flinn Scholars to Budapest, Hungary, and neighboring Romania for a three-week intensive seminar on the unfolding democracies of Eastern Europe. Scholars meet with leading political figures, learn the local history…


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Special Feature: Eastern Europe travelogue 2007

June 04, 2007

Every summer the Flinn Foundation escorts an entire class of Flinn Scholars to Budapest, Hungary, and neighboring Romania for a three-week intensive seminar on the unfolding democracies of Eastern Europe. Scholars meet with leading political figures, learn the local history…


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22nd class of 20 Flinn Scholars chosen

May 24, 2007

[Source: Arizona Republic] — Twenty Arizona high school seniors have been awarded Flinn Foundation Scholarships worth more than $50,000 apiece. The award provides four years of study at an Arizona university, academic-focused travel abroad and personal mentorship by faculty members.…


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