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A RECORD $76,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS

PRESENTED! By Nancy Ketch ‘82

FALL/WINTER • 2019 Last Chapel is always an exciting night when Houlton High Seniors receive scholarships and awards as
they prepare for the next chapter in their lives and the Houlton High School Alumni Association has had a
huge presence at the event for many years. This year, however, was a record setting year as the Alumni
Association presented $76,000 in scholarships to members of the Class of 2019. As part of that, there
were several first time awards from some of our named scholarship funds. This is a great testament to
the support and love of our alums who give so
generously!

This was the first year to present scholarships
from the Hamilton & Maxine Giberson Fund and
we were able to present four $5,000 scholarships
in their name. Those recipients were as follows:
Wyatt Harvey who is attending Johnson and
Wales studying Business/Culinary; Taylor Cowan
who is studying Early Education at the University
of Maine Presque Isle (UMPI); Kaitlyn Smith who
is studying Computer Science at Johnson and
Wales; and, Tessa Solomon who is studying
Business/Music at the University of Maine at
Orono (UMO).

We presented eight scholarships totaling $5,000 John Carson'62 extends challenge to other classes to start a class
in all. The other recipients were as follows: Ryder scholarship
Graham who received a $5,000 scholarship from
the Henry, Elizabeth & Janet White Fund to study Aerospace Engineering at Embry Riddle; Gabriella Guiod
also received $5,000 from the White fund to attend the UMO studying Biology; Sydney Sides received
$5,000 from the White Fund and is studying Early Education at Thomas College; and, Jillian Haggerty
received $4,000 from the White Fund combined with the $1,000 Thomas Brown Scholarship and she is
Pre-Law at UMO.

Davan Thornton is attending the University of
Maine at Augusta (UMA) studying to be a Vet
Tech. He received a total of $4,000 including a
$2,200 scholarship from the James F. McPartland
Fund and $1,800 from the Alumni Association.

A $3,500 scholarship from the White Fund was
presented to Benjamin Grant who is studying
Sports Management at Thomas College.

There were 10 recipients of scholarships totaling
$2,750. Several of these included the first-time
presentations.

Alexander Wilde is studying Psychiatry at Brown
University and received a $1,000 scholarship
Karen Cyr Gallop '64 presented scholarship on behalf of Class of 1964 from the Aaron & Maria Putnam Trust Fund
combined with $1,750 from the Alumni
Association.

Nolan Porter, who is attending Rochester Institute of Technology for Software Engineering, was presented
with the first ever scholarship from the Gerard A. & F. Hope York Fund in the amount of $1,000 which was

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