Foundation
for Roanoke Valley announced it has awarded close to $100,000 in educational
scholarships during its annual scholarship dinner, held at the Sheraton Roanoke
Hotel and Conference Center on May 19.
The Foundation administers 47
endowed scholarship funds, and it received close to one thousand applications
for scholarships this year. Recipients
were selected on a competitive basis using criteria established by donors at
the creation of the scholarship endowment.
The Foundation’s largest
scholarship, its “Holland Scholar Award,” is always at least $10,000 and is
given annually to an outstanding graduating senior from the Roanoke Valley
Other scholarships awarded to Roanoke Valley
The Alphin Family Scholarship Fund: Gregory
L. Brown and Lillian G. Riley, Rockbridge County.
Cave Spring Lions Club Scholarship
Fund: J. Christian Blackwell, Patrick Henry and Daniel W. Webb, William
Byrd. CITY School Foundation Scholarship
Fund: Justin T. Howell, William Fleming and Ciara R. Mulcahy, Patrick Henry.
Christi Crutchfield Memorial
Scholarship Fund: Alyssa M. Nelson, Northside. Helen F. Dickson Scholarship Fund: Mauri
B. Deeds and Michaela I. Miller,
Alleghany; Dylan R. Persinger,
Covington.
Lenna E. Etzler Scholarship
Fund: Alyssa D. Lowe, Lord Botetourt. Franklin County Ed-U-K8tor Scholarship
Fund: Alexus V. McBride, Franklin County.
Franklin County High School Scholarship Fund: Danielle
N. Hodges and Michaela V. Tyree. Gilbert-Thompson Memorial Award Fund: Drew
M. Harlow and Michaela I. Miller,
Alleghany.
Joseph Waskey Gilbert Memorial Fund
Award: Morganne Durham, Virginia
Tech. Clarence M. Gillis Memorial
Scholarship Fund: Nhi T. Nguyen, Patrick
Henry. Michael Dean Guilliams Memorial
Scholarship Fund: Mason L. Wheeler, Patrick Henry.
Margaret Jones Irvin Scholarship
Fund: Clay E. Adkins, Alleghany
and Ana K. Lopez Muguiro, William Byrd. Jefferson College of Health Sciences Scholarship
Fund: Jordon Long.
Melva P. Jones Scholarship Fund: Julianne E. Ferguson, William Byrd.
Grace Lovegrove Memorial Scholarship Fund: Christopher
G. Pufko, Patrick Henry. Marion Senior High School Memorial
Scholarship Fund for Music, Arts, the Performing Arts, and Education: Daisy
E. Sturgill.
Ronald L. Mayfield, Jr. Scholarship
Fund: Brenda Pineda Aguilar, Patrick
Henry. The Louise and Sam McGhee
Scholarship Fund: Michael L. Albert, and Ethan L. Aylor, James River. Carol Lee
McGuire-Bishop Scholarship Fund: Alexis L. Richmond, Alleghany; Dorothy
and Julien Meyer, Sr., M.D. Scholarship Fund:
George B. Barker, Salem.
Clarissa Edwards Noland Memorial
Scholarship Fund: Megan B. McClure, Lord Botetourt.
The National Honor Society – Felton Pendleton Memorial Scholarship
Fund: Odessa B. Burress and Michael
A. Dean, George Wythe. Jean L. Price Scholarship Fund: George
B. Barker, Salem; Danielle C. Booth, Franklin County; Henry P. Hurt, Franklin County; Andrea Secamiglio, Roanoke Catholic.
E. Price Ripley Memorial Foundation
Fund: Ryan A. Fralin, Lord Botetourt; Melissa Y. Wu, William Byrd;
Hannah G. Winstead, Salem Frank W.
(Bo) Rogers Scholarship Fund: J. Christian Blackwell, Patrick Henry.
Frances Parker Rupert Memorial Fund
for Music and the Performing Arts: Cedar
J. Moore, Alleghany. Scholarship
Fund for Craig County High School Students: Eliza Page Paitsel.
Eddie Simpson Scholarship Fund: Nhi
Nguyen, Patrick Henry. The Joyce and
Shad Solomon Family Scholarship Fund: Tanner L. Bradley, Bath County.
Samuel “Bo” Terry Scholarship
Fund: Elizabeth K. Brown, William Fleming and Nhi Nguyen, Patrick
Henry. Bryan William Thomas Scholarship
Fund: Nicole C. Wilson, Glenvar.
H.B. and E.B. Wharton Scholarship Fund:
Haley N. Green, Glenvar; Taylor E. Powell, Cave Spring; Corina E. Woodson, William Byrd.
Dianne E.H. Wilcox Scholarship
Fund: Azia M. Cardwell, Covington; Tori
M. Deibler, Christiansburg; Walker
T. Maxey, Franklin County. John W. Wilks Excellence in Science
Scholarship Fund: Benjamin T. Colston, Roanoke Valley Christian School. Melva Dulaney Wright Memorial Scholarship
Fund: Cole J. Cowher, Cave Spring.
Foundation for Roanoke Valley is the community foundation serving
this region. The Foundation has worked
for more than two decades to administer and make grants from hundreds of named
endowment funds on behalf of the community.
For more information, visit Foundation for Roanoke Valley’s website at www.foundationforroanokevalley.org or call 985-0204.
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