Press release from the Outer Banks Community Foundation For more information, contact Lorelei Costa at 252-261-8839 or lcosta@obcf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Outer Banks Community Foundation Awards $115,000 in Scholarships Southern Shores, NC, June 4, 2013 The Outer Banks Community Foundation has awarded $115,000 in scholarships to 54 graduating seniors and college students from Dare and Currituck Counties, including the prestigious Milton A. Jewell Scholarship. At the senior awards ceremonies for First Flight High School, Manteo High School, Currituck High School, and Cape Hatteras Secondary School, 33 graduating seniors received 50 discrete scholarship awards totaling $65,000. Thirteen of those awards are renewable (contingent on the student s college GPA and continued full-time enrollment), representing an additional $76,200 in future awards. In addition, 22 college students all originally from First Flight, Manteo, Currituck, or Cape Hatteras received renewed scholarships this spring, totaling another $40,000. The Community Foundation broke tradition and announced two new Milton A. Jewell Scholarships this year, to Zack Owen and Kermit Farrow, the valedictorians of their graduating classes from First Flight High School and Cape Hatteras Secondary School, respectively. The Milton A. Jewell Award is the Community Foundation s most prestigious merit-based scholarship, established by bequest by the late Ruth Medgyes of Southern Shores as a memorial to her grandfather. These $5,000 renewable awards are granted to students with extraordinary academic achievement and outstanding community service. Mr. Owen is an Eagle Scout, while Mr. Farrow is a volunteer for the Frisco Volunteer Fire Department; both young men contributed over 400 volunteer hours last year. In addition to the merit-based academic scholarships, the Community Foundation is also setting aside an additional $10,000 from the Milton A. Jewell Scholarship Fund for need-based adult scholarships for trade and technical courses at College of the Albemarle. Also awarded this year were the Sawyer Scholarship and the Jerry and Arlene Davis Scholarship, presented to Aaron Zeigler and Charles Shotton, respectively, both graduating seniors from First Flight High School. These two renewable, $5,000 scholarships reward positive work ethic and good academic standing; they are intended to help students achieve educational dreams that might not otherwise be possible. The Community Foundation manages scholarship funds not only for families but also for a dozen local businesses, civic organizations, churches, local governments, and nonprofits, including the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, the College of the Albemarle Foundation, First Flight Society, Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church, Dare Community Crime Line, the Duck Woods Ladies Tennis and Golf Associations, and the North Banks, Manteo, and First Flight Rotary clubs.
The Outer Banks Community Foundation is open to anyone who wishes to establish a scholarship endowment or contribute to one of our existing scholarship funds. The Community Foundation has awarded more than $1,200,000 in awards to over 1,000 Outer Banks students since the organization s inception in 1983. For more information, call 252-261-8839 or visit www.obcf.org. For photographs of our 2013 scholars, check out the Community Foundations Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/outer-banks-community-foundation/131828147548 2013 Scholarship Awards Catherine Carrington Clawson Scholarship John Robinson: $1,400 (Manteo Class of 2013) Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann Art Scholarship John Blackstock: $500 (First Flight Class of 2010) Heidi Brothers: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012) Colin Conners: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2010) Amelia Kasten: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Morgan Leatherwood: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Shelby Matthews: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012) Nic Nelson: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Austin Pickens: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2013) John Robinson: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2013) Andrew Sanchez: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Elke Talbot: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2010) Courtney M. Burgess Memorial Scholarship Rachel Dutton: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012) Sara Seto: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012) Curtis Creech Memorial Scholarship Julie Klair Simansky: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013) Dare Community Crime Line Scholarship Jonathan Meads: $550 (First Flight Class of 2011) Dare County Association of Fire Officers Scholarship Jarrett Davis: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Kermit Farrow: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Colby Sawyer: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013)
Dare County Outer Banks Jaycees Scholarship Cheyanne Wescott: $500 (Manteo Class of 2013) Dare Math/Science Scholarship Caroline Lowcher: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2011) Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Association Scholarship Elmer & Betty Jo Sawyer Scholarship Margaret Easley: $700 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2012) Mabel Soe: $700 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) First Flight Society Scholarship Kyle Andrews: $500 (Manteo Class of 2013) Founders Scholarship (Duck Woods Ladies Golf Association) Marley Felthousen: $1,800 (Currituck Class of 2013) Frank M. Cahoon Memorial Scholarship Ashton Harrell: $700 (First Flight Class of 2013) Cheyanne Wescott: $700 (Manteo Class of 2013) George W. Neighbors Memorial Scholarship Daniel Martin: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Glenn Eure Endowment Fund for Arts Education Andrew Sanchez: $900 (First Flight Class of 2013) Greg & Eden Honeycutt Scholarship Jordan Mugford: $2,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship Alissa Oberbeck: $2,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Jerry & Arlene Davis Scholarship Charles Shotton: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) William Smith: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2011) Hunter Wright: $2,500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012) Susan Yangsteadt: $5,000 (First Flight Class of 2010) John T. Daniels Scholarship Barbara Olbrichova: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2011) Kellogg Cuthrell Manteo Rotary Scholarship Nic Nelson: $500 (First Flight Class of 2013) Charles Shotton: $500 (First Flight Class of 2013)
Kiwanis Leo Sheetz Memorial Scholarship Wesley Rawles: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Cheyanne Wescott: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013) Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Rotary Scholarship Megan Greer: $800 (Manteo Class of 2013) Madison Maher: $800 (Manteo Class of 2013) Lucian Griffin Scholarship Tyler Grandy: $1,000 (Currituck Class of 2013) Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship Mitchell Foster: $1,500 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012) Taylor Swankie: $1,500 renewable (First Flight Class of 2011) Cheyanne Wescott: $1,500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2013) Susan Yangsteadt: $1,500 (First Flight Class of 2010) Milton A. Jewell Scholarship College of the Albemarle: $10,000 for need-based trade and technical scholarships Jennifer Bryson: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2011) Kermit Farrow: $5,000 renewable (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Richard Murphy: $5,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012) Zachary Owen: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) North Banks Rotary Scholarship Ashton Harrell: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Daniel Martin: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Julie Klair Simansky: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013) Aaron Zeigler: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Outer Banks Association of Realtors Scholarship Sherif Hysa: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2010) Timothy Jordan: $500 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Isaiah Lowe: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Katelyn Monday: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013) Sabrina Ramirez: $500 (First Flight Class of 2013) Aaron Zeigler: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2013) Peggy O'Brien Scholarship Leighanne Davis: $1,000 renewable (Currituck Class of 2012) Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Kaitlyn Odell: $1,200 (First Flight Class of 2013)
Sawyer Scholarship Aaron Zeigler: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013) Sgt. Earl Murray Memorial Scholarship London Davenport: $250 (First Flight Class of 2013) Jarrett Davis: $250 (First Flight Class of 2013) Stewart Couch Memorial Scholarship Timothy Jordan: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013) Tom O'Brien Scholarship Tucker Jarvis: $1,000 renewable (Currituck Class of 2012) Wallace H. McCown Scholarship Nicholas Sorenson: $2,200 (Manteo Class of 2013)