The 15th Annual Scholarship Luncheon was a heartwarming matter for J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s scholarship recipients in addition to generous benefactors in addition to friends who attended the outcome on Thursday, Oct 18th.
With 190 guests inward attendance, it was the perfect chance for donors in addition to educatee recipients to come across each other, many for the get-go time. Spirits were high in addition to grin faces lit upwardly the room.
Speakers included Andrew Gibb, benefactor of the Gibb Family Scholarship. The scholarship, established inward the retentivity of his mother, provides assistance to active or honorably discharged military machine members. Mr. Gibb spoke of his fearless woman nurture in addition to relayed the frightening floor nearly how her life was saved inward 1979 past times United States of America Marines when the United States of America Embassy inward Islamic Republic of Pakistan was attacked in addition to assault burn downward acre she in addition to other Embassy staff members were locked inward a vault within the building.
Two scholarship recipients were likewise given the chance to speak. Charlie McDonough, a 2011 Valley Proteins Fellow, started his human relationship alongside JSRCC inward 1994, returned inward 2003 to pursue becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse in addition to most latterly completed his RN terminal December. He noted it was the inspiring teachers that kept bringing him dorsum to Reynolds. His advice to electrical current students was non to chase a paycheck, simply rather chase their dreams.
Sierra White, recipient of the Reynolds Family Scholarships inward retentivity of J. Sargeant Reynolds told the audience that without her scholarship she would non hold upwardly able to attend school. Although she had e'er dreamed of aid a iv twelvemonth academy far from home, she instantly realizes that her friends who followed that path accept non had the multifariousness in addition to depth of experiences that Sierra has enjoyed at Reynolds. She said her scholarship gave her hope, a force towards the futurity that says, “You tin produce it.”
The luncheon was a neat chance to give cheers JSRCC’s donors for their shared vision in addition to back upwardly of our students, giving them the chance to hand their potential in addition to hit their dreams.
For to a greater extent than data nearly available scholarships, how to utilize in addition to of import deadlines, take in www.reynolds.edu/scholarship.