Foxcroft Academy Horizon Scholarship winners
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Two students and two faculty members were presented Horizon Scholarships by Tom Lizotte of the Board of Trustees at Foxcroft Academy on June 6. Horizon Scholarships provide financial support for exceptional academic experiences not presently offered at Foxcroft Academy. Students in grades eight, nine, 10, or 11 who are (or will be) enrolled as full-time students at Foxcroft Academy are eligible to apply, as well as faculty members.
Horizon Scholarships are funded by income generated from 15 named endowed Horizon Scholarship funds within the Academy’s endowment. Approximately $11,000 is available to FA students and faculty members each year for these scholarships. This year $1,950 was awarded to students and $3,872 to faculty.
English faculty member Morgan Rublee was awarded the Jim Brown Horizon Scholarship to attend a 10-week Gotham Writers online Fiction Workshop. Rublee teaches FA students remotely from her home in Texas, and this course is to help her create a stronger Creative Writing class for her students.
Faculty member John Sylvester was awarded a grant from the Howard Ryder Professional Development Fund, created in memory by the family of former FA Head of School Howard Ryder. Ryder was Head of School from 1981 to 1994. Sylvester will be attending the “Level up Your Class Room” Workshop in Orlando, Florida, a workshop for welding instructors. The crux of the program is to cover many educational tools, ranging from curriculum design, development and integration of lesson plans, effective and engaging presentations, and differentiated learning techniques to engage students more effectively in the classroom and the lab.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP – Tom Lizotte, left, of the FA Board of Trustees with John Sylvester. Faculty member Sylvester was awarded a grant from the Howard Ryder Professional Development Fund to attend a welding instructors workshop in Orlando.
Junior Lauren Martin, daughter of Brent and Kandi Grant Martin ’93, will be headed to Rice University in Texas to attend a National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, in part thanks to the Everett and Evelyn Hall Johnston Horizon Fund, both members of the Class of 1928.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER – Tom Lizotte, member of the Foxcroft Academy Board of Trustees with Lauren Martin. A junior, Martin will be headed to Rice University in Texas to attend a National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, in part thanks to the Everett and Evelyn Hall Johnston Horizon Fund.
Hailey Holler, a freshman from Charleston, was awarded the Foxcroft Academy Alumni Association Horizon Scholarship to attend the Northern New England District Assemblies of God Leadership summer camp in Rumney, New Hampshire.