Deane awarded Grange’s Don Hall Scholarship
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SANGERVILLE — The East Sangerville Grange has announced the recipient of this year’s Don Hall Scholarship. A first-year scholarship was given to Courtney Deane, a recent graduate of Piscataquis Community Secondary School in Guilford.
The Don Hall Scholarship, managed by the East Sangerville Grange through the Maine Community Foundation, has awarded funds to many graduates since 1992. During its 24-year history, the scholarship has been able to support students with over $35,000 in funds.
Scholarship namesake Hall was a Sangerville resident, who became well-known for his enthusiastic and continual support of local and state politics. He served many years in the Maine House of Representatives in a manner that exemplified his dedication for keeping in touch with the people he represented. His reputation attracted advice seekers from as far away as Washington, D.C., even long after his retirement from active political life. Many people knew Hall through the family business, Hall’s Christmas Tree Farm, and enjoyed drinking in the stories and good humor of his conversation.
Before his death in 1992, Hall created the scholarship fund to help support high school graduates who had demonstrated civic and community involvement, leadership qualities or efforts on behalf of the environment or the arts. As a pivotal member and past master of the East Sangerville Grange, Hall hoped the scholarship recipients would be East Sangerville Grange members or their relatives.
The East Sangerville Grange is pleased to continue the Don Hall Scholarship as a fitting reminder to those in the Sangerville area that his generous nature and love of the region and its people are why the scholarship exists. The members are proud to award the annual scholarship to support individuals in their pursuit of high education.