Dr. Ruth Preston Lehmann (1912-2000) was an internationally recognized scholar of Celtic and Old English. After earning her B.A. and M.A. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, she edited language texts for the U.S. Armed Forces Institute in Washington during World War II. She then taught medieval literature and linguistics, with a focus on Old Irish, at George Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis, and finally the University of Texas. She and her husband, Dr. Winfred P. Lehmann (1916-2007), co-authored An Introduction to Old Irish, a text still used at universities across the country. Her husband established this scholarship in 2000 to honor outstanding female students at Martin Luther College.
Scholarship winners are senior women with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better.
