Scholarship Fund of Alexandria Awards Students

Wednesday's Scholarship Fund of Alexandria Awards Ceremony marked the 25th year since the birth of the generous organization. As more than 170 students gathered in the cafeteria with presenters, parents and teachers assembled in the auditorium awaiting their arrival.

Students chose classmate Gifty Boakye, who will be attending St. John’s in New York City this fall, as class speaker. She thanked the Scholarship Fund for its benevolence and patience. Boakye also mentioned that her brother had received a similar scholarship 12 years earlier.

Guest speakers included Alexandria City Public Schools Board Chairman Yvonne Folkerts, Superintendent Morton Sherman and Mayor Bill Euille, who congratulated students and thanked parents and the fund.

Sherman quoted the musical “Rent” which was performed on the very stage where he spoke a few months earlier by asking the audience "How do you measure a year?" He segued into "How do you measure success?," adding that he was looking upon the faces of 170 measures of success. He then gave one of the first awards to Vasiliki Voskidi, who will go to the American School in Athens.

As the parade of students made its way across the stage, each presenter told which college and major the awardee had chosen. Rows of recipients filtered out of their seats and onto the stage until, after two hours, the last students had crossed and Assistant Director of the Fund Tom Fulton announced “Dessert awaits.”