SFn celebration on You Tube

Great turnout of scholarship winners

May 24, 2022

If you missed the May 18 Celebration of Scholarship Awards, you can find the ceremonies recorded on You Tube. Here’s where to browse:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSe_fwm5eneoivZT58ObjTg/videos

Above is the link to join both the 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. sessions of the Celebration. The first video features the recipients of scholarships at the Secondary Academy for Success and Woodinville High School. Graduates are introduced by counselors Laurie Broulette and My Kiakotos. Emcee is Scholarship Program Coordinator B-Z Davis, welcome by Foundation president Melissa Arias and remarks by school board member Sandy Hayes.

The second video (use the same link above) features award winners from Bothell, Inglemoor and North Creek high schools. They are introduced by counselors B.J. Dawson, Jim Allen and Dawn LaMance. B-Z Davis continues as emcee, Melissa welcomes and Dr. Michelle Reid, Northshore’s superintendent of schools, addresses the students and viewers.

Enjoy! One scholarship winner even checked in while studying abroad in Nice, France.

McAuliffe Family Scholarship - featured this edition

Inglemoor graduate Sammie Hong is the 2022 recipient of the $3,500 scholarship sponsored by Rosemary and the late Jim McAuliffe. She plans to attend the University of Washington to study Business. Sammie was captain of the Inglemoor cross country team.

Her teachers report, “She smiles readily, is self-effacing, and desires to make a career in medical science ("I've wanted to become an ophthalmologist ever since needing glasses in 3rd grade"). Sammie wrote a 4,000-word independent research paper for English class on the study of The Scarlet Letter and the impact this novel has had on American literature.

Scholarship applicants are asked what “service to others” means to them. In this newsletter series we report excerpts of their responses.

Hayden - Volunteer for stage crew during band performances, and keeping busy working at the Inglemoor Animal Hospital, all while juggling a rigorous academic schedule and maintaining an extremely high GPA.

28 Renewals awarded

Scholarship foundation Donor Partners will award 28 scholarships as renewals totaling $144,000 for the 2022 season.. Included will be 9 renewals provided to recipients of the Rodgers Family Scholarship. Three 2022 graduates received Rodgers scholarships. Rodgers this year generously increased the value of their scholarship from $7,500 to $10,000 each - for first year as well as ongoing renewals. These 9 renewed scholarships will go to the following, with current schools listed:

Aaya Anan, New York University
Matt Cummings , Washington University at St. Louis
Kirk Johnson, University of Washington
Camden Kaminsky, University of Washington
Lydia Morgan, Brigham Young University
Blake Musburger, University of Washington
Amogh Pande, Dartmouth University
Brendan Szymanski, University of Washington
Jenny Xiong, Stanford, University

The names and colleges of the remaining 19 renewal recipients will be featured in the next New from Hughes edition. (The forecast for 2023 is 37 renewals at a total of $181,250).

In Appreciation - Plaudits and Kudos

We are indebted to three volunteers who have been extremely instrumental in the success and growth of our Foundation.

Karen McDonald — stepping down from the Board of Trustees and as Treasurer for several years. Karen introduced software that made onLine applications possible since 2018 so we could handle 522 applications in this current cycle of awards. She has a terrific record of public service.

Sandy Kallio — responsible for coordinating the May 18 virtual celebrations of our 99 scholarship winners. Producing the “show” involving assembling photos, donor partner credits and a powerful power point. Sandy becomes Woodinville Rotary Club president July 1.

Nathaniel Gibbs — a four-year alum recipient of the Town of Grace $5,000 Entrepreneurial Scholarship and the technical genius managing the two virtual celebration sessions May 18 in which a great number of awardees unmuted themselves and appeared on cue to tell about themselves and their future education plans.