Main Street Community Foundation Awards Nearly $100,000 in Scholarships

The following article was submitted by Samantha Rajotte, program associate for the Main Street Community Foundation in Bristol.

The Main Street Community Foundation awarded scholarships totaling close to $100,000 to 83 local students on June 27, including students from Southington.

The Richard A. DellaVecchia Scholarship was awarded to Ashley Wheeler and the Robert E. and Angeline P. McCormack Scholarship was awarded to Margaret Fletz. In addition, Michael Petit, a Southington resident, received the Doris Lazorik Memorial Scholarship and the Scholarship.

The scholarships were awarded during the foundation's annual Scholarship Reception at the Bristol Public Library. A total of 101 scholarships were awarded from 43 scholarship funds established by donors at the foundation.

The reception to celebrate the donors and recipients was attended by more than 160 people and featured special guest Stacey Tank, a former scholarship award recipient and current Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Relations Officer of Heineken USA.

Scholarships are available annually to students from the towns of Bristol, Burlington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington and Wolcott as well as other communities who are at varying levels of their academic careers. The 2012 scholarship recipients are as follows:

E. Bartlett Barnes Journalism Award: Nicole Jacques and Jacqueline Stoughton.

4 Burns St. Joseph/St. Paul Scholarship: Zachary Jones and Ashley Kosikowski.

Sid Bernard Memorial Art Scholarship: Tiffani Barley.

Peter and Marjorie Bossi Scholarship: Elizabeth Pelletier.

Bowerman Scholarship: Leslie Lewis.

Bristol Lions Club F. Fred Soliani Memorial Scholarship: Chelsea Conlon.

Bristol Police Union Scholarship: Corinne Malley.

Bristol Yale Scholarship: Brandon Conlon and Nicole Jacques.

Burlington Lions Charities Scholarship: Rebecca Borovsky, Shannon Larkin and Katelynn Mudgett.

Conn Acoustics Scholarship: Kayla Maciejewski.

Peg Coughlin Nursing Scholarship: Taylor Darby.

Richard A. DellaVecchia Scholarship: Ashley Wheeler.

Karen Finder Scholarship: Jasmine Betts.

William E. Furniss, M.D. and Doris I. Furniss Scholarship: Chelsea Conlon and Ivy Yung.

Andrew and Murielle Giacomini Scholarship: Elizabeth Pelletier.

Dorothy Ives Award:  Lindsey Schaffrick.

Grace & Norma Joy Scholarship: Chelsea Conlon.

Keating Monaghan Memorial Scholarship: Madison Bloom, Makayla Bloom, Gabriella Capasso, Alexa Celi, Luke Dognin, Abigail Feyerabend, Sam Gaughan, Madison Hagaman, Matthew Harkey, Peter Miller, Makendra Mowad, Kaleah Richards, Diana Rojas, Nicholas Ruffino, Guillermo Sarimento, Nathan Saucier, Zachary Saucier, Joseph Spanilo, Noah Stevens, Emily Stuckman, Haley Stuckman and Julian Vinuelas.

Sean Landry Memorial Basketball Scholarship: Matthew Volz.

Doris Lazorik Memorial Scholarship: Michael Petit.

Dave Lepore Journalism Scholarship: Nicole Jacques.

Nicholas P. Maglio ACE Fund: VernaJean Michaud.

Malerbo Memorial Scholarship Fund: Jonathan Hylan, Kimberly Hylan, Zachary Jones, Felicia Knight, Adam Levesque, Andrew James Pahl, Amethyst Peterson, Chadd Richardson and Paul Wiecki.

Robert E. & Angeline P. McCormack Scholarship: Margaret Feltz.

McMaster - Moulthrop Scholarship: Nathan Casale, Mitchell Gagnon, Elise Galipo, Hristos Giannopoulos, Nicole Jacques, Ashley Pecorelli, Alino Te and Emily Zygiel.

Ken E. Micloskey Award: Elizabeth Haylette.

NESMA Scholarship: Brandon Conlon and Hristos Giannopoulos.

AJR Nocera Memorial Scholarship: Brenna Belletti and Julia Jarmoszko.

Scott W. Organ Student Athlete Scholarship: Brenna Belletti.

Estelle Delano Peterson Scholarship: Ramsha Khan.

Dorothy Dewey Picard Music Scholarship: Noelle Currie.

Plainville Blue Dolphins Scoreboard Fund: Peter Dalena and Kayla Quealy.

Plymouth Community Scholarship: Vannesa Kello.

Max & Ruth Rabin Scholarship: VernaJean Michaud.

Radcliff Family Education Fund: Maria Hoppe, Anastasia St. Hilaire, Ivy Yung.

Radcliff Plainville High School Fund: Charles Romanow, Alexis Rodriguez.

Douglas Roland Aid for the Trades Scholarship: Dillon Griffith.

Lawrence (Larry) Selza Memorial Scholarship Fund: Kaitlyn Vieira.

St. Matthew School Scholarship: Aaron Matthews, Nicholas Sward, Lucas Sward, Cassandra Sward.

Southington Observer/StepSaver Scholarship: Michael Petit.

Peggy Ann Walsh Memorial Scholarship Fund: Nicole Jacques, Ashley Pecorelli and Ivy Yung.

John Whitcomb Scholarship: Christina Cyr.

Yarde Metals Memorial Scholarship: Jamie Corda, Noelle Currie, Katharine Graham, Laura Miller, Christopher Rothkugel, Martyna Rusinowicz, Joseph Russo and Tyjee Williams.

The Main Street Community Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for both present and future generations in the communities served by encouraging and promoting gift planning, prudent stewardship of assets, effective grantmaking and community leadership. A nonprofit public charity, created by private citizens, the foundation works with donors in Bristol, Burlington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington and Wolcott who wish to build permanent charitable endowments to support their communities. Since its founding in 1995, the foundation has provided over $8 million in grants and scholarships.

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