The six Clinton Gabby Girls – Jennifer Huff, Rose Smith, Sabrina Parlette, Cynthia Glasscock, Terri Cummings, and Dee Radford – are all busy professional women, moms, wives and volunteers. The last thing they needed was another project. Yet, here they are – hosting a softball tournament, a murder-mystery fundraiser, an Elvis tribute show. Within a year, they reached their initial goal and awarded the first-ever Gabby Girls Scholarship to Judith Rowland, a junior at Missouri State University who wants to specialize in international law, preferably at the United Nations. She’s more than 20 countries into her goal of visiting 126, including the spring semester studying in Ghana.

The Gabby Girls are so energized by their first scholarship that they’re now working toward a second. More significantly, they’d like to work with other circles of women across the Ozarks to start their own giving circles or Gabby Girls chapters.

They know there are a lot more young women out there like Judith who are earning their shot to succeed as Jennifer, Terri, Sabrina, Dee, Cynthia, and Rose have done.