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COMMUNITY, HOPE AND SUPPORT FOR OUR FUTURE.

Hartford Foundation Scholarship Program 2018 Scholarship Recipients

Together for Good.® We live in a community that could UNTIL benefit from change. WE GET The statistics on the following pages paint a stark picture about the state of higher education in Greater Hartford. Continuing education is critical to future economic security. EQUALITY IN But the cost of that education continues to exceed the resources of many of our students, particularly students of color, those with lower family incomes, and those living EDUCATION, in specific neighborhoods. WE WON'T Still, I see many reasons to hope. More of our students are continuing their education, HAVE AN JAY WILLIAMS particularly those students from lower-opportunity President neighborhoods. Assistance, through scholarships Hartford Foundation and wrap-around programs, can make a measurable EQUAL for Public Giving difference. The Foundation is fortunate to work with individuals and organizations that generously give time and financial support to scholarship programs. Their SOCIETY. steadfast generosity allows the Foundation to innovate, such as through the Community College Scholarship Endowment Fund which helps students often overlooked by traditional scholarships—those attending two-year — SONIA SOTOMAYOR schools, and those transferring to four-year schools.

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02 Why Scholarships Matter 24 Community College Scholarship Program 04 Dr. Robert J. Patterson: 25 Graduate School Scholarships Opportunities Matter 26 Colleges and Universities 08 Creating a Scholarship Fund at the Hartford Foundation 28 Donors to Scholarship Funds 10 Individual Scholarship Funds 31 Volunteer Scholarship Committee 16 College Scholarship Program WHY SCHOLARSHIPS MATTER

RATE OF INCREASE Students from very low income Weekly earnings for full-time wage and Students’ receipt of (since 1973, adjusted for inflation) households spend twice as high salary workers 25 years old and older: financial aid, such a share of their family income to as scholarships, can attend a 4-year public institution Bachelor’s High school increase college Public college tuition: +274% compared to students from high Degree: diploma: enrollment and positive income households. $1,173 $712 academic outcomes. (Institute for College Access and Success 2014-15) (Dynarski and Scott-Clayton 2013, Top 1% household (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017) and others) income: +170%

One third of Hartford Public Median household  Princesse Harmon Schools seniors make it to the and Bryan Richiez income: +7% nd are both graduates 2 year of college. of the Academy of Aerospace (HFPG analysis of EdSight and National Student (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 2016, College Board 2017) Clearinghouse 2015 data) and Engineering.

Students graduating from Black and high school in the Greater White Latino students Hartford Region who students ONE FIFTH DO NOT ATTEND COLLEGE: ONE THIRD

(HFPG analysis of EdSight and National Student Clearinghouse 2015 data)

Completion rate among students Unmet financial need increases the need for students to seek employment in who started in BLACK WHITE while attending college, which can negatively impact academic performance. STUDENTS STUDENTS four-year colleges: 33% 71% (Work Less, Study More, and Succeed 2009) (2018 Common Data Project)

2 For a full list of sources, please visit hfpg.org/scholarshipreport 3 In 1998, a young Hartford resident named Robert Patterson became a Hartford Foundation scholarship recipient. He used his award to help fund his studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

He went on to earn his Ph.D. from Emory University and to become the inaugural Chair of African American Studies at his undergraduate alma mater.

Two decades after first receiving his scholarhip, DR. ROBERT J. PATTERSON: Dr. Patterson addressed the Hartford Foundation’s 2018 Scholarship Program recipients about the role his award played in his life's pursuits. In his OPPORTUNITIES experience, that scholarship represented more than help with tuition. It acknowledged the importance MATTER of community, investing in the future, and an understanding of the privilege of higher education and the access it makes available.

“While education provides one with the skills and knowledge to execute jobs and professions responsibly, it also equips us with the necessary tools to think critically, to ask questions, to accept and reject information, and to offer innovative solutions to long-standing and seemingly impenetrable problems.”  Dr. Robert J. Patterson, keynote speaker at the 2018 Hartford Foundation Scholarship Reception.

4 5 LIFE DOES NOT TURN OUT HOW WE IMAGINE, THOUGH THAT FACT SHOULD NEVER LIMIT THE POWER OF IMAGINATION.

— DR. ROBERT J. PATTERSON Dr. Patterson with fellow Hartford Foundation 2018 Scholarship Reception scholarship recipients.

Dr. Patterson recognizes the value of these Innovative thinking transforms communities opportunities and continues the mission and individuals, eradicates systems of of philanthropy by establishing the inequality and privilege, and offers new Robert J. Patterson Scholarship Fund ways of imagining and experiencing the through the Hartford Foundation. This world. Dr. Patterson asserts that these scholarship will be available to Hartford principles are at the heart of a just future. residents who intend to major in African American Studies, the Humanities, and/or Social Justice.

6 7 Zyaire Oliver, a graduate of A. I. Prince Technical High School, received an award Because of our donors’ generosity, last year the Hartford Foundation from the Antoinette Shippen Mason Scholarship and awarded more than $1.45 million in support of college scholarships the W. Philip Braender and Nancy Coleman Braender to more than 625 traditional-aged students and adult learners at Scholarship funds. four-year and two-year colleges, as well as graduate school.

There are three ways you can make a substantial impact on area students through the Hartford Foundation:

1. With a gift of $50,000 you can create an Individual Scholarship Fund and name specific selection criteria for your scholar. The Foundation can help you decide how to participate in reviewing potential recipients. We will also handle scholarship distributions and renewal applications, and help you communicate with your scholar if you choose.

2. You can contribute any amount to the Hartford Foundation’s General Scholarship Endowment Fund or create a named fund with a gift of $10,000 or more. Contributions are invested in our broadly diversified portfolio and the Fund makes four-year scholarship awards—currently of $3,000—to residents of Greater Hartford.

ABOUT THE HARTFORD FOUNDATION 3. You can contribute any amount to the Community College Scholarship Endowment Fund or create a named fund with a gift of $10,000 or more. SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Contributions are invested in our broadly diversified portfolio and the fund makes three-year scholarship awards of increasing amounts. Currently, the awards are for graduating high school seniors or adult learners attending a community college within the Greater Hartford region.

Our scholarship funds were created by people and organizations of all types Many of the scholarships for traditional-aged students are renewable, enabling students and from all across Greater Hartford. Although their situations vary greatly, to receive significant support for each of their years in college as long as they maintain they all share one motivation—to help students afford a college education. a good academic record. Moreover, these funds are endowed, which means that the Hartford Foundation can continue to award scholarships to area students.

9  Natalie Guerrero is attending Goodwin College with an award from the Town and County Club This list includes students who have received first-time awards as of August 30, 2018 Fund Scholarship. for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Joyce and Philip Lebbeus F. Bissell Rachel Saal Acquaviva Fund Scholarship William H. Hall High School Scholarship Kathryn Somosky  Nathan MacDonald Glastonbury High School  Aiyanna Coulter Rockville High School William H. Hall High School Lindsey Montminy Patricia L. Coombs Vanessa Goodman Rockville High School Scholarship Conard High School Tin Nguyen  Calina Barnum Shadesse McCrae Ellington High School University of Hartford A. I. Prince Technical Shane Tourtelotte High School Rockville High School Phyllis Kosiorek Miranda Mertes Cordner and Roy R. David T. Black Memorial William H. Hall High School Cordner Scholarship Scholarship Sreenidhi Nair  Tasnim Ahmed William H. Hall High School  Michael Baril Manchester High School William H. Hall High School Eric Amenabar Kierrah Harris Tiernan Posse Memorial Scholarship East Catholic High School Franklin and Marshall College Hamda Khan u  Quy T J. Leo Bodo Rockville High School East Hartford High School Scholarship Zachary Kopiec Brian A. Aselton East Catholic High School  Larda Yottivong Memorial Scholarship Matthew Kropp Killingly High School Manchester High School  Allison Camp Donald and Dorothy Ashley Markunas Rockville High School Bonelli Puerto Rockville High School Kevin Rodriguez Oblitas Rican Education Fund Evgeny Medvedev FIRST-TIME RECIPIENTS FROM Manchester Community Scholarship East Catholic High School College Emily Potvin  Alison Ramirez-Cahuana INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP Bartlett Family East Catholic High School Bulkeley High School Scholarship Thasfia Rifa Bonzagni and Thomas Manchester High School FUNDS HELD AT THE  Maggie Maznicki Families Scholarship Joana Topanxha Somers High School Manchester High School  Bridget Beahn HARTFORD FOUNDATION Jackson-Batchelder Maxwell Toth Rockville High School Family Scholarship Manchester High School Sabrina Williams Laurel M. Cohn FOR PUBLIC GIVING  Destiny Ortiz East Catholic High School Scholarship A. I. Prince Technical High Joy V. Decicco The Hartford Foundation congratulates the following students and School  Gabriel Ahmad College Scholarship acknowledges the generosity of the individuals, families and organizations Adrian Service Northwest Catholic High that created the funds to make these scholarships possible. Achievement First Hartford School  Tessa Slesinski High School Wethersfield High School

11 Albert T. and Daniel R. DiNardi Courtney Tyler  Maggie Maznicki, a graduate of Somers High Jane N. Dewey Memorial Scholarship Glastonbury High School School, received and Fund Scholarship Maxim Veilleux  Shelby Cios award from the Bartlett Glastonbury High School  Tasnim Ahmed Family Scholarship Manchester High School Hartford Whalers Farmington UNICO Stephen Antwi Booster Club Scholarship Scholarship Manchester High School  Taylor Geaglone Sabeen Barlas  Melanie Auclair Manchester High School Farmington High School Raven Brown Kriti Bashyal Jennifer Hodges Achievement First William H. Hall High School Fund Scholarship Hartford High School Benjamin Brophy  Jane Lee Everton Bygrave Farmington High School Conard High School Manchester High School Jesenia Maldonado Armela Mucka Benjamin Greenfield Conard High School Manchester High School Conard High School Stanley D. Fisher Jayleah-Faith Hunt Samuel Leonard Joseph Scholarship Manchester High School Memorial Scholarship Melody Ochoa  Xavier Rouleau  Jackson Mahaffey Manchester High School William H. Hall High School Aiden O'Connor Conard High School Glastonbury East Catholic High School The Walter S. Memorial Scholarship Thasfia Rifa Kapala Scholarship Manchester High School  Walid Al Abas Alysia Rivera  Grace Andrews Glastonbury High School Civic Leadership High School Conard High School Jayda Barber Chasity Rivera Carlos Berrios Glastonbury High School Manchester High School A. I. Prince Technical Dina Bassette Bryan Rodriguez High School Glastonbury High School Howell Cheney Technical Samuel Bidwell Rachel Bentivegna Kristin Kepner and Eric T. Mahoney Douglas J. Myers High School Wesleyan University Glastonbury High School Kimberly Kepner McCahill Memorial Fund Scholarship Corey Roya Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Brooke DeCarolis Barbara Kelco Manchester High School  Grace Andrews Glastonbury High School Memorial Scholarship Conard High School Aylin Saydam  Ashley Martin  Margaret Kehoe Gabriella DiBacco Manchester High School Avon High School Glastonbury High School Glastonbury High School  Angela Binghi NSDAR - Marjorie P. Umaiya Shaikh Jack Stokesbury Katherine Jadlos Granby Memorial High The Middlebury Nutt Scholarship Manchester High School Avon High School Glastonbury High School School Fund Scholarship Ferhana Tamanna  Brooke DeCarolis Maria LaPira Ray Lachat Memorial Manchester High School  Madison Conroy Glastonbury High School Glastonbury High School Award Scholarship Ivory Thibdeau Nonnewaug High School Grace Moore Carl P. Palazzotto Manchester High School  Thomas Grady Melissa Hallas Glastonbury High School "P.M.A." Scholarship Jackie Zheng Conard High School Holy Cross High School Nicholas Pappas Manchester High School  Nadia Son Glastonbury High School Nadia Zuniga Conard High School Chloe Tuttle Manchester High School Glastonbury High School

12 13 Drs. Nima Patel and Mary Fattouh Noni Jones Town and County Club Julie Veilleux L. Wynne Wister Daniel McNaughton Bulkeley High School Noah Webster MicroSociety Fund Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Kacey Harris Magnet School  Madeline Dawson  Megan Cloutier  Monique Anderson Bulkeley High School Sean Kupstas  Tahara Davis Goodwin College South Windsor High School Bloomfield High School Sanya Hewitt Noah Webster MicroSociety Manchester Community Matricia Ford Samantha Itsou Bulkeley High School Magnet School Lillian W. and College Goodwin College Bloomfield High School Alison Ramirez-Cahuana William B. Welden Abdul Ileaasu Samuel A. Roth Natalie Guerrero Lavar Johnson Bulkeley High School Fund Scholarship Central Connecticut Scholarship Goodwin College Bloomfield High School Nilshali Sanchez State University Yanna Li  Amlisha Acosta-Silverio Alexis Jones Wethersfield High School  Madison Cusick-Howat Frukan Ileaasu Capital Community College Bloomfield High School Nathan Hale-Ray High Central Connecticut Joyce S. Picard Kimberly Palmer Davis School Your Chance Scholarship State University Scholarship University of Hartford Muriel S. and Gordon A. Wilson Scholarship Hawa Ileaasu Bill and Maxine Keianna Tamalavic  Yovanny Henao  Sairah Sheikh Manchester Community Schortman Scholarship Goodwin College Central Connecticut State South Windsor High School  Tasnim Ahmed College Chakie Whitfield Manchester High School University  Vanessa Bobb Hoang Tu Pomeroy-Brace University of Saint Joseph Abdul Ileaasu Yanna Li East Windsor High School Manchester Community Scholarship Capital Community College United Nations Association Central Connecticut State College Esteban Molina of Connecticut (For University Miranda Zhang  Filamena Vukaj East Windsor High School Amiel P. Zak Scholarship Greater Hartford) Cora Menasian William H. Hall High School University of Saint Joseph Scholarship Manchester High School  Olivia Grimard Dorothy E. Hofmann Ritter Family Suffield High School  Grace Andrews Pembroke Scholarship Scholarship Conard High School  Mirnesa Becarevic  Aniya Encarnacion Sport & Medical Sciences Noah Webster MicroSociety Academy Magnet School

14 15   Joseph Santiago-Campos, a Arrica Adams Mariah Boria graduate of Rockville High Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy School, received an award Janice and Kerry Foster, Sr. Scholarship Hartford Grammar School Scholarship from the Janice F. and David M. Klein Scholarship, Neal R. Alan E. Green Hartford Housing Seigel Memorial Scholarship, Authority Scholarship Rakyah Cauley and Philip and Nancy Sport and Medical Sciences Academy Braender Scholarship funds. Herb Sheintop Memorial Scholarship Drs. Booker T. and Elena L. DeVaughn Scholarship Sameeksha Agrawal Glastonbury High School James A. Jones Memorial Fund Scholarship

Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel Taylor Antoinette Shippen Mason Scholarship Young Scholarship Thomas Clark Sharelle Bailey Suffield High School Bloomfield High School W. Philip Braender and Nancy W. Philip Braender and Nancy Coleman Braender Scholarship Coleman Braender Scholarship Fontana Family Scholarship Pillar Community Development Corporation Scholarship Jordin Comstock Dr. Sedrick J. and Alyce T. East Granby High School Rawlins Scholarship Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship June Miller Rosenblatt Scholarship Robert B. and Francine L. Goldfarb Family Scholarship Michael Baril William H. Hall High School Melina Corrao GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Manchester High School Family Fund Scholarship Sylvia H. Koski Scholarship Rhoda L. Miller Music Scholarship HARTFORD FOUNDATION Janet B. Rose Memorial Scholarship Angelia Davis Bloomfield High School COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP The Stearns Fund Scholarship Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Family Fund Scholarship PROGRAM Dylan Benton Manchester High School Sylvia H. Koski Scholarship Connecticut Mortgage Bankers George F. Stevens Education Social Affairs Fund Scholarship Fund Scholarship

Bert and Betty Rosen Scholarship

The scholarship funds listed below the recipients’ names were Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine pooled to provide one four-year renewable scholarship award. Family Fund Scholarship

17 Rashaun Davis Princesse Harmon Kailyn Kaluna Brittany Leonard University High School of Academy of Aerospace and Engineering Rockville High School East Catholic High School Science and Engineering Murtha Cullina LLP Scholarship Clark Family Fund Scholarship Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship Day Pitney LLP Scholarship Charles, Sophie and Helen Vartan K. Omartian and Beatrice KJ Foster Scholarship Nabila Hoor-Un-Ein Fine Family Fund Scholarship Omartian Scholarship Manchester High School Vantaja Davis Charles, Sophie and Helen Jayen Keaton Global Communications Academy Fine Family Fund Scholarship Windsor High School Rene Liz The Master's School Murtha Cullina LLP Scholarship Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel Taylor Jayleah-Faith Hunt Young Scholarship Noble E. and Emma Belknap Manchester High School Lord Memorial Scholarship Holly Dewitt Manchester High School Antoinette Shippen Mason Scholarship Efua Koomson East Hartford High School Camille McHenry Rae and Abraham Kopplemann Windsor High School Additional Fund Scholarship Victoria Hurley Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship Glastonbury High School Charles, Sophie and Helen Walter "Doc" Hurley Scholarship Fund Fine Family Fund Scholarship Alejandra Diaz Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel Taylor for Greater Hartford Scholarship Hartford Public High School, Academy Young Scholarship of Nursing and Health Sciences Jim and Marlene Ibsen Scholarship Lirim Mehmeti University High School of Science Wendy and Boyd Hinds Lavar Johnson and Engineering Memorial Scholarship Bloomfield High School Elana Kranc Hebrew High School of New England Day Pitney LLP Scholarship Antoinette Shippen Mason Scholarship Eleanor Duva Charles, Sophie and Helen Herb Sheintop Memorial Scholarship Conard High School Fine Family Fund Scholarship Mitchell Johnson Irving Goldberg Latin Scholar Glastonbury High School Nabeel Mian Fund Scholarship Jabarii Leary Manchester High School Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel Taylor Global Communications Academy Janice F. and David M. Klein Scholarship Young Scholarship W. Philip Braender and Nancy Day Pitney LLP Scholarship Coleman Braender Scholarship

Maricielo Fabian Alexis Jones Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Alpha Psi Arman G. and Betty A. Hatsian Scholarship Boulé Scholarship Wethersfield High School Bloomfield High School Ilene and Marty Kaplan Scholarship Noble E. and Emma Belknap Lord Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Trumble Family Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Family Fund Scholarship Genesis Lefebres Hartford Public High School, Academy Thomas J. Villano Scholarship of Nursing and Health Sciences Richard Mitchell Kelly Guerrero William H. Hall High School Rockville High School Maria Gonzalez Borrero Scholarship Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Roland S. Harris, Jr. Scholarship Maxine Rothe Schortman Family Fund Scholarship Award Scholarship

18 19 Sophia Nelson Lucas Pharattanavong Classical Magnet School Windsor Locks High School Hartford Grammar School Scholarship Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship

Donnarie Noble Nikki Ponticelli THIS SCHOLARSHIP Achievement First Hartford High School Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts AB Club Scholarship Foundation Nina L. Hartin Memorial Scholarship Fund established by John D. HAS ALLOWED Herb Sheintop Memorial Scholarship Wardlaw Scholarship Day Pitney LLP Scholarship Amanda Pretty ME TO FOCUS FULLY Fred H. Greenwood Ellington High School Engineering Scholarship Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship Linda J. Kelly Family Scholarship ON MY STUDIES

Tucker Family Scholarship Fund Lena Proietti in Memory of Abraham H. and Conard High School Fannie K. Tucker, David J. Tucker, Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship DURING THE SEMESTER Thelma (Tucker) Cooper and Robert P. Tucker Scholarship Khaleel Rahman Windsor High School BECAUSE I DON'T Zyaire Oliver A. I. Prince Technical High School Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel Taylor Young Scholarship W. Philip Braender and Nancy Coleman NEED TO WORK WHILE Braender Scholarship Cedane Richards Antoinette Shippen Farmington High School Mason Scholarship I'M AT COLLEGE. Gerald and Phyllis Hughes Fund Scholarship Ma Pan Hartford Public High School, Dorothy L. and Justin R. Law and Government Academy Tucker Scholarship — SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT Ida L. Hartenberg Charitable Fund Scholarship Bryan Richiez Academy of Aerospace and Engineering Wendy and Boyd Hinds Memorial Scholarship Frederick G. Adams Scholarship Murtha Cullina LLP Scholarship

Imalay Perez Alice M. Neenan Memorial Scholarship A. I. Prince Technical High School Day Pitney LLP Scholarship

20 21   Eleanor Duva is a graduate Melody Rivera Caleigh Smith of Conard High School and Journalism and Media Academy Windsor High School recipient of the Janice F. and David M. Klein Scholarship Herman P. Kopplemann Elmer Cooke Young-Ethel and Irving Goldberg Latin Fund Scholarship Taylor Young Scholarship Scholar Fund Scholarship.

Kennedy Roundtree Luke St. Amand Bloomfield High School South Windsor High School Antoinette Shippen Mason Scholarship Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship CohnReznick Scholarship Sydney Ruschmeier Rockville High School Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Family Fund Scholarship Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Family Fund Scholarship Peter Jung Scholarship Maxine Rothe Schortman Award Scholarship James Sullivan Northwest Catholic High School

Joseph Santiago-Campos General Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship Christian Thomas Marilyn Vazquez Rockville High School University High School of Mercy High School Meyer-Kimball Memorial Scholarship Science and Engineering Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship Meyer-Kimball Memorial Scholarship Janice F. and David M. Klein Scholarship Richard Palmer Scholarship Day Pitney LLP Scholarship

Neal R. Seigel Memorial Scholarship The Interracial Scholarship Fund Marisol Vazquez John Sullivan of Greater Hartford Scholarship Mercy High School Josh Wittenberg Memorial Scholarship Northwest Catholic High School Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Alpha Psi Boulé Meyer-Kimball Memorial Scholarship Harry A. Donn Scholarship Scholarship Fund No. 2 Scholarship Jessica Saponare East Windsor High School Lillian C. Donn Scholarship Soleil Vernon Tori Thornton Bloomfield High School General Scholarship Endowment Philip and Nancy Braender Scholarship Pathways Academy of Technology and Design Fund Scholarship Rae and Abraham Kopplemann The Harugari Lodge of Broad MassMutual Foundation Additional Fund Scholarship Meyer-Kimball Memorial Scholarship Brook Fund Scholarship for Hartford, Inc. Scholarship

Vincent Villano Scholarship Murtha Cullina LLP Scholarship Chloe Williams Shannon Taylor Conard High School Connecticut River Academy Linda Shewokis at Goodwin College Maxwell Toth Alliance Française of Hartford Classical Magnet School Manchester High School Harpin/Rohinsky Scholarship Day Pitney LLP Scholarship Hartford Grammar Herman P. Kopplemann Fund Scholarship Stanley D. and Hinda N. Symee Ruth Feinberg School Scholarship Fisher Scholarship Memorial Scholarship

Victoria Tracy Charles, Sophie and Helen Fine Rockville High School Family Fund Scholarship Herman P. Kopplemann Fund Scholarship

22 23 HARTFORD FOUNDATION HARTFORD FOUNDATION COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is pleased to list recipients In addition to undergraduate scholarships, the Hartford Foundation takes of the Community College Scholarship Program. The recipients are pride in awarding scholarships to students continuing their education in attending a local community college. graduate school. Below are the names of first-time graduate school scholarship recipients in 2018.

Capital Community College Arrica Adams June Miller Rosenblatt Community Connecticut Hispanic Sylvia Parkinson Dr. Sidney Rafal Memorial College Scholarship, Bar Association Fund Fund Scholarship Fund Scholarship Community College Scholarship Program Scholarship Michael Bowe Anastasiya Badziai

Abdiel Echevarria-Caban University of Connecticut University of Connecticut Melanie Moure University of Connecticut School of Medicine and of School of Medicine and of Roxanne Cave Scholarship School of Law Dental Medicine Dental Medicine

Andrea Rodriguez San Andres Oscar Romero Renee Haughton South Asian Bar Mimi and Brendan Lynch Community Quinnipiac University University of Southern Association Endowed College Scholarship, School of Law California, Keck School Fund Scholarship Community College Scholarship Program of Medicine Dr. Frank and Florence Shehrezad Haroon Marino Scholarship Jugerta Istrefi University of Connecticut Manchester Community College University of Vermont, School of Law Hawa Ileaasu Alexandra Buda Robert Larner College Roxanne Cave Scholarship  Jason Hegenauer is working toward a University of Rochester of Medicine Peter T. Steinwedell doctorate in Educational Leadership, School of Medicine Scholarship Mae Passini and Juliet Hoang Tu with a scholarship from the Peter T. Tamanna Hossin Anderson Memorial Jason Hegenauer Community College Scholarship Program Steinwedell Scholarship Fund. University of Wisconsin Fund Scholarship University of Hartford School of Medicine and Nadia Zuniga Public Health Christina Bolduc June Miller Rosenblatt Community University of Saint Joseph College Scholarship, Community College Scholarship Program

24 25 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Hartford Foundation scholarship recipients are attending:

  Noni Jones, a graduate Albany Medical College Endicott College Norwich University of the Noah Webster American Fashion Institute of Technology Philadelphia University MicroSociety Magnet School, International College received an award from the Franklin and Marshall Plymouth State University Ritter Family Scholarship. American University College Post University Asnuntuck Goodwin College Quinnipiac University Community College Hampshire College School of Law Bard College Hofstra University Rensselaer Polytechnic Binghamton University Institute Iona College Boston University Rochester Institute Keene State College of Technology Brandeis University Keck School of Medicine, Roger Williams University Brown University University of Southern California Sacred Heart University Bryant University Long Island University Salve Regina University Calvin College The Robert Larner, M.D. San Francisco State University Capital Community College College of Medicine at the Southern Connecticut Central Connecticut University of Vermont State University State University University of Connecticut University of New Hampshire University of Vermont, Loyola University Maryland Hartford Campus Robert Larner College Springfield College University of New Haven Champlain College of Medicine Manchester University of Connecticut St. John's University University of North Carolina Charter Oak State College Community College School of Law University of Wisconsin at Chapel Hill St. Joseph's University School of Medicine and Colby Sawyer College Marist College University of Connecticut SUNY Canton University of Rhode Island Public Health College of the Holy Cross Marymount Manhattan College School of Medicine & of Temple University Dental Medicine University of Richmond Villanova University Colorado College Montclair State University Towson University University of Delaware University of Rochester Wagner College Cornell University Morehead State University Trinity College University of Hartford University of Rochester Wesleyan University Dartmouth College New York University School of Medicine Tunxis Community College University of Hawaii at Manoa Western Connecticut Eastern Connecticut Nichols College University of Saint Joseph State University State University University of Alabama University of Massachusetts Northern Arizona University at Lowell University of Southern Yale University Emerson College University of Bridgeport California Northwestern Connecticut University of Maryland Emmanuel College Community College University of Connecticut University of Vermont University of New England

26 27   Nabeel Mian, graduate of Manchester High School, received support from the Trumble Family Scholarship (pictured with Tom and Dougie Trumble)

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