Horizon Scholarship winners announced at Foxcroft Academy

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Five Foxcroft Academy students were presented Horizon Scholarships by Tom Lizotte of the Board of Trustees at a school assembly on June 8. 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.

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HORIZON SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS — Five Foxcroft Academy students were presented with Horizon Scholarships, to support academic experiences not presently offered at the school, on June 8. From left is Avery Carroll, Grace Bickford, Morgana Vick, Jordan Thomas and Ethan Poland.

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 students and faculty members each year for these scholarships. This year $4,594 was awarded to students and $3,500 to faculty.

The Maine Summer Youth Music Camp at the University of Maine will host two freshmen musicians: Jordan Thomas and Morgana Vick. Thomas received the Terrance Bush Horizon Scholarship established by his mother Bessie in 1998 to honor his love of music, and Vick was aided by the Shirley Gammon Horizon Fund.

Thanks to help from the Gordon and Wilma Andrews Horizon Scholarship Fund Grace Bickford, daughter of Carl and Jen Bickford, will attend the Unity College Game Warden Camp to check out the life of a game warden.

Avery Carroll will be visiting Costa Rica to study and work at a turtle conservation project. Carroll’s long-term career goal includes marine biology and she says this will help solidify her path as she considers her college choices.  As the James Brown Horizon Scholarship helped her brother Clay attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Summer Seminar last year, so it will help Carroll make discoveries about her future.

Ethan Poland will be attending the National Youth Leadership Forum on Engineering and Technology in Boston. He is very grateful to the Michael P. Bush Horizon Scholarship Fund for the assistance.

Since 1993, the Horizon Scholarship program has awarded more than $123,000 to approximately 200 students searching for unique life and learning experiences outside the regular classroom. The Foxcroft Academy Board of Trustees is grateful to those alumni and friends who deemed these opportunities to be of such vital importance to our 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, Barb Goodwin Fund, Peter and Marion Plouff Fund, A. Steward Bush Horizon Fund, Louis Philpot Fund, Foxcroft Academy Scholarship Association Horizon Fund, Ivan Marshall Fund, Everett and Evelyn Johnston Fund, Virginia Preston Horizon Art Fund, and the newest created fund, the Linda Gammon Fine Arts Horizon Scholarship.