THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 9-10, 2016 A THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-3 S alute to Oneonta’s Dollars for Scholars O neonta Dollars for Scholars Board of Directors were to honor scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and friends to their annual awards program Wednesday, June 8, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom Sixty-one scholarships were to be presented, and honorees shared a personal achievement or experience of which they are most proud The Dollars for Scholars program seeks to financially assist local students with the increasing costs of higher education and lessen the amount of debt from their respective schools Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta director of admissions and mother of OHS senior and honoree Rachel Brown, was to give the welcome and the closing comments Dollars for Scholars President Jacqueline Rowe was to present the certificates Zoe Akers (SUNY Broome Community College) William & Esther Fink Memorial Scholarship Garrett Hassard (SUNY Polytechnic Institute) Steven A Lutz Memorial Scholarship Ethan Beckerink (SUNY Buffalo) George H Lambros Memorial Scholarship Taylor Hitchcock (Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences) Winifred Marcley Memorial Scholarship Emily Berrios (SUNY Canton) Dr Rudolph & Gwen L Schuster Scholarship Sarah Brackett (Roberts Wesleyan College+) Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship Rachael Brown (SUNY New Paltz+) Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship Patrick Calhoun (SUNY Cortland) Oneonta Football Booster Club Scholarship Joseph Casassa (Univ of Massachusetts at Amherst) Future for Oneonta Foundation Inc Scholarship & Robert Squires Memorial Scholarship Michelle Chen (School of Visual Arts+) Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship Brenna Decker (SUNY Geneseo) Herb & Rae Froh Memorial Scholarship & Christine M Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship Rory Decker (Kings College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship & Oneonta Teachers Association Scholarship Bennett Eggler (SUNY Oneonta) Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship Claire Garfield (SUNY Stony Brook University) Bruce Rowe Memorial Scholarship & The Zuretti Family Scholarship Bhanupratap Gaur (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship Emily Harter (SUNY New Paltz+) Jim Konstanty – “That’s a Good Start…” Scholarship & The Daily Star Scholarship Jennica Holoquist (Clemson University) The Hon Robert A Harlem Scholarship Aanyah Jhonson-Whyte (Binghamton University) Frederick A Puritz Memorial Scholarship Daniel Mazzei (SUNY Polytechnic Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering) Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship Molly Medina (University at Buffalo) Frank W Getman, Sr Memorial Scholarship Mary Miller (Broome Community College) Brooks’ House of BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship Dalton Sheehan (SUNY Delhi) Robert J Shultis Memorial Scholarship Amy Shultis (SUNY Oneonta) Margaret W Ouimette Memorial Scholarship Aliya Sider (University at Albany) Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship Gavin Monroe (SUNY Plattsburgh) Steven A Lutz Memorial Scholarship Brianne Smith (University of Vermont) Clifford A & Elizabeth P McVinney Memorial Scholarship Holly Keown (Nazareth College) Charles T & Doris B Gallagher Memorial Scholarship Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship Kasie Stamp (Wells College+) Walter J & Anna H Burchan Scholarship Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship Jamie Keown (American International College) Michelle R Goodhue Memorial Scholarship Hang [Brittney] Nguyen (Bridgewater State University) Thomas M Hughson Scholarship Bekka Struble (SUNY Oneonta) Sixth Ward Athletic Club Association, Inc Scholarship Michelle Kimball (SUNY Cortland) Southside Association Scholarship Anne Nobiling (SUNY Geneseo) Robert W & Joan F Moyer Scholarship Sapphira Koerner (SUNY Oneonta) Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship Clark Oliver (SUNY Oneonta) Oneonta Rotary Breuninger/Forman Award Nisha Labroo (Pennsylvania State University) James & Carol Baker Family Scholarship Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Forgiano Family Leadership Award Abigail Loucks (SUNY Oneonta) Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Reverend Richard H Frye Memorial Scholarship Emily Loucks (Pennsylvania State University) Angie Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship Abigail Picinich (SUNY New Paltz+) Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship Kimberly Kamina (SUNY Oneonta) C James & Lois S Herrick Memorial Scholarship Robert Lyall (Siena College) John K Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship Antonio Russo (SUNY Delhi) Jared S Trotti Memorial Scholarship Noah Maben (Temple University) James C Austin Memorial Scholarship Christina Sakoulas (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship Morgyn Manzer (Appalachian State University) Brooks’ House of BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship Olivia Schwed (Ithaca College) Douglas Parsons Memorial Scholarship Gaylen Thompson (Lycoming College) Frances E Rowe Scholarship Julie Weite (SUNY Potsdam) Pasquale & Mary Leone Memorial Scholarship David Wessells (Houghton College+) George A & Isabelle L Niles Scholarship Aliaya Williams (University at Buffalo) Willies Family Foundation Scholarship Keyonna Williams (Johnson & Wales, Rhode Island+) Walter J & Anna H Burchan Vocational Scholarship Lindsay Wolfanger (SUNY Geneseo) Lindsay Marie Harvey Memorial Scholarship 54 AWARD RECIPIENTS 61 Awards Administered (7 Recipients have awards) Awards are matched through the Collegiate Partner Matching Program + congratulatIONS! 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