The Fitzie Foundation recognizes and supports outstanding young women with extraordinary potential from institutions across the greater Boston area. Fitzie Grogan Petersmeyer died February 15, 1985, at the age of 33 after a long struggle with cancer. Established as a means by which to remember her and carry on her spirit, The Fitzie Foundation makes annual financial awards to recognize and support outstanding young women from the institutions that featured most prominently in Fitzie’s life - Dana Hall, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School. The awards are designed to perpetuate Fitzie’s spirit in hopes that some of her values, her energy, her determination, her sense of merriment and adventure will be reflected in the lives of the Foundation’s beneficiaries.