FA awards Horizon Scholarships to 11 students
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Eleven students were presented Horizon Scholarships by Tom Lizotte of the Board of Trustees at Foxcroft Academy on May 28. Horizon Scholarships provide financial support for exceptional academic experiences not presently offered at Foxcroft Academy. Students in grades 8-11 who are (or will be) enrolled as a full-time student at Foxcroft Academy are eligible to apply.
Horizon Scholarships are funded by income generated from 15 named endowed Horizon Scholarship funds within Foxcroft Academy’s endowment. Approximately $11,000 is available to FA students and faculty members each year for these scholarships. This year $7,185 was awarded to students and $1,785 to faculty.
Sisters Brianna ’17 and Brittany Adkins ’16 will attend the Maine Media Camp at the New England School of Communications in Bangor. Hailey Wellington ’15 received the Barbara Goodwin Horizon Scholarship to also attend the Husson Academy for Teachers.
Two students will be attending National Youth Leadership Forums: Matthew Baiamonte ’15 received the Michael Bush Horizon Scholarship to attend a forum on careers in engineering and technology at Georgia Tech and Gabriela Johnson ’16 will travel to San Francisco to attend a forum exploring careers in medicine with the help of the Everett and Evelyn Johnston Horizon Scholarship.
Sophomore Racquel Bozzelli will be visiting Davis, Penn. to attend the Templeton Honors College Summer Program through the help of the Louis Philpot Horizon Scholarship. Long-time FA faculty member and alumnus Jim Brown’s Horizon Scholarship will allow junior Clay Carroll to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Summer Seminar in New London, Conn.
Thanks to the friends and family of Foxcroft alumna Shirley Rowell Gammon ’50, Sarah Phillips will spend three weeks with Deer Hill Expeditions in Manios, Colo., which will include backpacking, hiking and doing conservation work. Kellen Strout was awarded the Gammon Horizon Scholarship to attend a young writers’ workshop at the University of Maine at Farmington. Also at UMF, Aaron Provost will attend the Maine Jazz Camp through the Terrance Bush Horizon Scholarship. Sophomore Jordan Marshall will spend six weeks at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, with an emphasis on musical theater.
Since 1993, the Horizon Scholarship program has awarded more than $118,000 to approximately 196 students searching for unique life and learning experiences outside the regular classroom. The Board of Trustees is grateful to those alumni and friends who deemed these opportunities to be of such vital importance to students that they created these endowed scholarship funds, some of which are listed above. Other funds not awarded this year include the Richard Snyder Fund, Myron Dean Horizon Fund, Gordon and Wilma Andrews Horizon Fund, A. Steward Bush Horizon Fund, Ivan Marshall Fund and the Virginia Preston Horizon Art Fund.
Photo courtesy of Foxcroft Academy
HORIZON SCHOLARS — Foxcroft Academy students presented with Horizon Scholarships, to take part in academy experiences not offered at the school, are front, from left, Brittany Adkins, Racquel Bozzelli, Kellen Strout, Sarah Phillips and Hailey Wellington, Back, Matt Baiamonte, Clay Carroll, Gabriella Johnson, Brianna Adkins, Aaron Provost and Jordan Marshall.