The Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County announced the awarding of  Alma Newlin Educational Fund scholarships to talented local students residing in the five local school districts of Avon Grove, Kennett, Octorara, Oxford, and Unionville-Chadds Ford.  The scholarships, totaling $114,000 this year alone, are designed to assist students in preparing for careers in the health care field.  Award values this year were $2,000 to $15,000.

This year’s awardees plan to study for a variety of careers including nursing, medicine, health sciences, physician assistant, physical therapy, dentistry, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, occupational and physical therapy.

All recipients must have maintained a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and be human health care education-bound students either in undergraduate studies or pursuing advanced degrees. Each applicant is eligible for one undergraduate and/or one post-graduate award at this time.    

The Alma Newlin Educational Fund was established in 1990 through a bequest from Mrs. Alma Newlin, who lived in Kennett Square.  The Fund is administered by the Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County.  Applications for next year’s scholarships may be obtained on our website at www.HWFSCC.org under the funding link. The Foundation asks that you please use only current applications for your submission printable after October 1 of each year.

The recipients this year include the following:

Avon Grove School District

Leah Gray

Abigail MacDonald

Brooke Huver

Avon Grove Charter School

Ryan Campbell

Abigail Keller

Sydney Correll

Isabella Perso

Kennett Consolidated School District

Anahi Lopez Torres

Julia Hertz

Monserrat Lemus-Zavala

Sarah LeGault

Octorara School District

Lily Rising

Oxford School District

Zoe Verbanos

Sydney Dunlap

Hannah Martin

Samantha Kellerman

Chester County Intermediate Unit

Brianna Deitz

College and university students

Johns Hopkins Medical School

Alexandra Rizaldi

Temple University

Talha Farooq

Erin Mazur

Shenandoah

Caitlyn Sweet

George Washington University

Sidney Brutscher