Thanks to a game of golf and dinner, the Jacqui Milzow Memorial Scholarship Foundation gave away $10,000 this year to help two organizations.
Checks to SCAMP and The Links were presented by Forrest Mizlow after a day of golfing at Pine Knob Golf Course on Monday, July 20.
During a dinner ceremony that evening at Deer Lake Athletic Club, present owner and Jacqui Mizlow’s son, Forrest Mizlow presented two checks for $5,000 each to Clarkston SCAMP and Oakland County Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.
SCAMP is a five-week long special camp for kids and adults with developmental disabilities held each summer.
Wendi Clufetos, attended dinner to accept the check on behalf of SCAMP, said Mizlow is extremely supportive of SCAMP.
“He buys them lunch and opens up Deer Lake Athletic Club to let the kids come in and swim at no charge,” she said. “There is so much Forrest has done. He donates memberships, he also started our Jingle Mingle annual fundraising event and opened up his own home for it.”
Clufetos added it keeps a lot to fund SCAMP, $450,000 each year. Another check was also presented to The Links representative Laurestine Hatchett.
The Links, first founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 is a volunteer service organization of nearly 14,000 professional women of color. The organization is committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.
Jacqui Milzow, a doctor, owned and operated Deer Lake Athletic Club in Clarkston from 1973 until her passing in 2004. She taught for 29 years in the Pontiac school district, teaching special education and developing curriculum. The scholarship fund was created in her memory in 2004.