Schools

Concord-Carlisle
Scholarship Fund

Kenneth Anderson, Chair
Paul Ressler, Assistant Chair
Albert Powers, Treasurer
Elaine DiCicco, Secretary
Ed Sonn, Assistant Treasurer
Dorothy Bean, Recording Secretary
Laura Chelton
Molly Eberle
Barbara Fisher
David Gould
Teri Hale
John F. Mee
Lucy Miller
Joellen O'Neil
David Prifti
Albrecht Saalfield
Paula von Kleydorff

The Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund is a tax-exempt charitable trust which is affiliated with New England Dollars for Scholars, a program of Scholarship America. Established in 1966, the Fund provides need-based grants to assist deserving young women and men obtain, to the fullest extent possible, the benefit of additional educational opportunities that may be open to them after completion of their secondary school studies. The Fund is administered by an all-volunteer board of trustees. Scholarships are financed by an annual appeal, by a student-staffed phonathon, and by income generated from memorial gifts, bequests, and twenty-seven (27) named funds. Complete information about the organization can be found on our web site: www.ccscholarshipfund.org.

Grant recipients must either reside, or have attended school, in Concord or Carlisle. Since its inception, the Fund has assisted over 1,000 students. This year, the Trustees were pleased to award $133,750 to high school seniors and in-college students while its affiliates supplemented this amount with another $43,250.

In May, Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund awards were made to the following students from the funds provided by our annual income: John Arsenault, Emma Bailey, Matthew Bloom, Alison Burke, Emma Canina, Nicholas Carr, Alice Colman, Michaela Corr, Patrick Corr, Natasha Crooks, Wesley Cullinane, Marcelia Curran, Andrew Daltas, Chantal Dewey, Marlow Duffy, Patricia Duggan, Kyla Eastman, Jasmin Fernandez, Brian Gaines, Charisse Gilmer, Elizabeth Gudmand, Andrew Guild, James Guzman, Linh Ha, Nancy Haff, Eamonn Hart, Cherisa Hernandez, Michael Hutson, Christine Kue, Tahlia Larose, Danielle Laura, Rahffety Maxwell, Mary McGrath, Ashley McManama, Travis Minor, Joshua Minty, Alexander Moore, Alexander Mora, Christine Moriarty, Pedram Nejad, Julie Oakman, Samantha O'Keefe, Elizabeth Orlando, Stephen Palen, Jason Pan, Benjamin Phillippo, Matthew Phillippo, Lauren Powell, Alison Probolus, Nicholas Probolus, Elisa Purinton, Emily Raiff, Makeba Rainey, Julia Reticker-Flynn, Thomas Richards, Lydia Silverman, Shinika Spencer, Sarah Twomey-Mercurio, Andrew Valenti, Michael Walker, Eric Wallhagen, Megan Walsh, David Welch, Marguerite Wilson, Tatiana Winey, Elizabeth Worthy, and Kairee Wright.

The following students received awards from named scholarships established by bequests and memorial gifts: Tatjana Dottin, Lea Furutani, Jillian Rubman (The William W. Anderson Memorial Fund), Katherine DeGuglielmo (TheTrudy Biernson Memorial Scholarship), John Arsenault and Tatiana Winey, (The Mary Connorton Memorial Scholarship), Jennifer Uzoma and Lauren Zwicker (The Elaine DiCicco Fund), Aleisha Browne, Aneesa Browne, Timothy Padden, Tia Porter, Madeline Schultz and David Welch (The Charles Evans Fund), William Whitney (The Wilson Flight Fund), Tatjana Dottin and Dat Le (The Essie Golden Fund), Amy Boyle, Mary Padden, Paul Sideris, Carol-Ann Wallhagen, Mark Zagata, Li Feng Zheng and Samuel Zucker (The Margaret Haggerty Fund), Joanna Orlando and Timothy Padden (The Seitaro & Shina Ishihara Memorial Fund), Coretta McGill (The Vinod Jalan Memorial Fund), Pejmon Ayandeh, Aleisha Browne, Rachel McNeil and Joshua Sinclair (The Casper C. Jenney and Eleanor M. Jenney Fund), Lauren Zwicker (The Diane Kenneally Memorial Fund), Riley Corr and Timothy Padden (The Knights of Columbus Scholarship Fund), Marcus Widell (The Norton Levy Fund), Paul Sideris (The Charles E. Manion, Jr. Memorial Award), Colin Corr, Riley Corr, Elizabeth Hwang, Tia Porter, Shinika Spencer and Jennifer Uzoma, (The Elizabeth A. Mattison Memorial Fund), Marie Benkley (The Janet Gates Peckham Fund ), Courtney Nelson, Jennifer Uzoma, (The Marguerite Purcell Memorial Fund),Courtney Nelson (The Nick Ressler Memorial Scholarship), Kenneth Hwu (The Al Robichaud Fund), Aneesa Browne, Eugene Han and Nicholas Morley (The Farnham W. Smith Fund), Jennifer Uzoma, (The Mark Teverovsky Fund), Marie Benkley, Elena Colman, Jessica Murphy and Madeline Schultz (The Charles K. Yeremian Award), and Maya Burns (The Tameji & Chivo Yoshimura Memorial Fund). Concord Carlisle Trustees' Fund scholarships were granted to Margot Campbell, James Constable, Ashley White.

cchs senior Taylor Maslowski received The Bobby Gray Memorial Scholarship and Vanessa Rao received The Tama Ishihara Memorial Scholarship, newly established named funds monitored by the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund for the first time this year.

In addition, the Scholarship Fund Trustees awarded the Rivercrest-Deaconess-Newbury Court Award to Joshua Lee and The David R. Woodin Memorial vfw Scholarship to Jaime Macone. Lorna MacDougall received The Welch Scholarship. Heather Aziz, Anna Daigle, Noel Eastman, Jennifer Fantasia, Melissa Judson and Jinzhao Wang received Rotary Club of Concord scholarships.

The Committee also helped to coordinate awards presented to the following students: Jacob Faucher and Luke Henesy (The Carlisle Garden Club), Sarah Bird, Merli Guerra, Linh Ha and Elisa Purinton (The Charles Williams Fund), Coretta McGill (The Concord Children's Center), Colin Corr and Jessica Murphy (The Concord Women's Club), Kathryn Bailey, Matthew Hammer, Jaime Macone and Kathryn Schaefer (The West Concord Woman's Club), and Meera Dhingra, Mary Halstrom, Nicholas Lunig, Renee Salvo, Luke Sideris, Caleb Silverman, Justin Silverman, Hillary Urbanic (various Town of Concord named scholarships).