Originally Posted: July 4, 2016
Lauren Zabaleta, a graduate of Redlands High School, is a senior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She is a member of the inaugural class of the health and society major at SMU, an interdisciplinary program that combines biology, chemistry, psychology and anthropology. Her minor is business administration.
She is vice president of member education for her Kappa Alpha Theta chapter. Zabaleta works in the SMU Office of Undergraduate Admissions as a student ambassador and tour guide.
Her experiences as a volunteer and intern for Prevent Blindness Texas have inspired her to become an optometrist.
She was a member of SMU NCAA Division I cross country and track team and club soccer team manager and has received All-American Athletic Conference academic honors.
Redlands Area Panhellenic Association was founded in 1949.
Since 1982, it has awarded 83 Panhellenic scholarships to young women who are initiated members of National Panhellenic Council sororities and who are from the greater Redlands area.
Next year’s scholarship applications, requirements and information are available atredlandspanhellenic.org. READ MORE