The Rosalind Molina & Barbara Molina Endowed Scholarship
With Barbara “Bobbie” Molina’s passing, her close friends and trustees of her estate, Theresa Murphy and Stacy Kelso have honored Bobbie’s wishes and instructions by establishing the Rosalind Molina & Barbara Molina Endowed Scholarship that provides financial aid support to students active with the Puvungna Resource Center and Women, Gender and Equity Center at CSULB.
Bobbie was proud of her Native American heritage and her membership in the Navajo Nation (Dine’). Since she was not born in Shiprock, Red Rock or Window Rock she referred to herself as an urban American Indian. Bobbie wanted to share her pride and her Navajo culture with others, so she volunteered at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. After a several months long training period, she became a docent. Her duties as a docent were to lecture on American Indian culture(s) at the museum and at various community sites. Her experience as a docent at the Southwest Museum allowed her to improve the quality of her LA County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) position as the principal American Indian Liaison.
One of her greatest passions was her unconditional love of animals. She always had four legged children as she termed them. Over the years they came into her life in various ways, and she cared for them with incredible devotion.
Bobbie was a curious woman and had a sense of adventure, which inspired others to travel, seek higher education and other advances in life. Bobbie understood the value of education and thought about the needs of future generations of students. Through this special scholarship, Bobbie’s legacy will live on in perpetuity.