O'Grady-Brown Fund Announces 2019 Scholarship Winners

NYACK, NY — The O'Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund has named the winners of their 2019 grants. They'll celebrate the five high school seniors June 1 at an awards brunch in Nyack.

Receiving a $1,000 scholarship:

• Corinne Kelly, Clarkstown High School South, New City
• Madison McCarney, Nanuet High School
• Kyle Muldoon, Pearl River High School
• Max Sapounas, Nyack High School
• Jillian Young, Pearl River High School

The fund is named after the two officers who were killed as they tried to stop domestic terrorists after the Brinks robbery in 1981 — Sgt. Edward J. O'Grady and Officer Waverly L. Brown.

A ceremony is held annually at 4 p.m. Oct. 20, at the Mountainview entrance to the New York State Thruway just off Route 59. That's where O'Grady and Brown were gunned down after the armored car heist when they stopped a U-Haul truck that was part of the getaway convoy. The radical leftists had already killed Peter Paige, a Brinks security guard, at the Nanuet Mall.

Clarkstown Sgt. John Hanchar, O'Grady's nephew, will be the guest speaker. The public is invited to the event. Tickets are $30.

SEE: 37th Anniversary of Brinks Robbery