AACS golf benefit
The Annapolis Area Christian School will sponsor the sixth annual golf classic tournament Monday at Queenstown Harbor Golf Club, 310 Links Lane, to benefit the school's tuition assistance and faculty development programs.
Sign-in will start at 9 a.m. and game play at 11 a.m. An awards dinner will be held at 4:30 p.m. Entry fee is $150 per player or $600 for a foursome, and includes greens fee, driving range, cart, shirt, golf items, lunch and dinner.
Information: 410-266-8251, ext. 116.
Help for minorities
Parents are invited to attend forums sponsored by the Office of Equity Assurance and Human Relations, Anne Arundel County Schools, to discuss achievements by African-American students.
The forums will be 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Annapolis and Lindale Middle School, in Linthicum. Child care and refreshments will be available.
Information: 410-222-5354, 410-222-5318 or aacps.org/ocr.
Making books
The Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts will hold bookmaking workshops for teens 16 and older and adults at 801 Chase St., Annapolis. Workshops are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and cost $87.
A hardcover, Coptic-stitch blank journal will be made Saturday, which will be a 5-inch-by-7-inch decorated book of 40 to 50 pages. A long-stitch variation embellished journal will be created May 30, designed using stencils and stamps and long-stitch design for binding.
The course class catalog for this and other spring and summer classes is available online at marylandhall.org. Weekly classes for all ages, one-day workshops and summer camps in the arts for children are available.
Information: 410-263-5544.
Golf tourney
St. Martin's-in-the-Field will hold its ninth annual golf tournament to benefit the Katie Fritz Scholarship Fund at 9 a.m. May 18 at Compass Pointe Golf Course in Pasadena.
Entry fee is $125 and includes coffee and doughnuts, beverages and snacks on the course; awards luncheon; open bar; contests; team awards; opportunities to purchase Mulligans and a 50/50 raffle; unlimited use of the driving range and putting green; and a putting contest.
Golfers, sponsors and advertisers are being sought.
Information: 410-647-7055.
Lauffer scholarship
The Joan Lauffer Breast Cancer Scholarship Fund, administered by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County, will award up to $1,000 to a college-bound high school senior who has, or had, a parent with breast cancer.
Eligible applicants should attend public or private school in Anne Arundel County; and must write an essay, one to three pages long, explaining how cancer has affected their family and how this scholarship will help them.
The deadline is May 31. Essays should be e-mailed to w.lauffer@verizon.net, with name, age, phone number, high school, college/university they are hoping to attend, and prospective major or area of interest. Funds will be paid to the winning student's school.
A resident of Edgewater and Riva for 25 years, and the mother of four, Joan Lauffer died in 2004 after a six-year battle with breast cancer. She started the scholarship fund to help ease the financial and emotional burden of a college-bound high school senior dealing with a parent with breast cancer.
Information: 410-956-0791.
