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30 Members of the Class of 2025 Awarded

Scholarships – Another Record!

By Jon McLaughlin ’73,
HHSAA Executive Director

Sofia Boutot received $5,000 - $4,560 from the Judith
Maines Taton Fund and $440 from the Hamilton and
Maxine Giberson Fund. Sofia is attending the University
of Maine at Farmington with a degree in Special
Education.

The Hamilton and Maxine Giberson Fund presented
$9,500 to five recipients:

Gavin Brightly, $1,000, majoring in Computer Science
Class of 2025 at Southern Maine Community College; Olivia Drake,
$2,000, studying to be a Surgical Technician at Eastern
The Class of 2025 was smaller than usual this year. There Maine Community College; Ryker Forbush, $3,500,
were 70 members. We presented almost 50% of the class majoring in Marine Engineering at Maine Maritime
with scholarships this year. Academy; Lilie Henderson-Bartley, $1,000, majoring in
Special Education at University of Maine at Presque Isle
We presented 30 scholarships to the class at Last Chapel and Tyler Scribner, $2,000, studying Criminal Justice at
in June. A total of $79,000 in scholarships were presented Eastern Maine Community College.
averaging a little over $2,600 per award. We also are in
year four of a four-year renewable scholarship obligation The Roger M. Rines Fund presented $11,000 to six
to several students resulting in the Association paying recipients:
out over $100,000 in scholarship funds in January of
2026! Emily Bushey, $3,500, studying Nursing at the University
of Maine at Orono; Eric Clemmer, $1,000, majoring in
Included in the scholarship awards were $14,000 from Liberal Studies at Northern Maine Community College;
the Henry, Elizabeth and Janet White Fund, almost Matthew Haney, $1,000, attending Northern Maine
$18,000 from the Roger M. Rines Fund and $12,000 from Community College; Carley Sennett, $2,000, studying
the Hamilton and Maxine Giberson Fund. And last year Auto Tech at Eastern Maine Community College; Mark
we reported that the Bob Fields Family Fund would have Thibodeau III, $2,500, studying Electrical at Southern
its first award to be given out in 2025. It did, indeed, and Maine Community College and Summer Violette,
it was partnered with other funds. Bob was a member of $1,000, studying to be a Veterinarian Technologist at
the Class of 1951. University of Maine at Augusta.

In total, scholarships from 14 of our sub-funds were
combined with additional money from the Annual Fund
and the Alumni Endowment Fund to award this year’s
giving.

McKenna Avery was awarded $3,000 - $2,080 from the
Bob Fields Family Fund and $920 from the Hamilton
and Maxine Giberson Fund. McKenna is attending the
University of Arizona with a degree in Business.
Anxiously waiting to march in

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