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2008 AFSA Academic and Art Merit Winners

 The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) Scholarship Fund announces the 2008 Academic and Art Merit Award winners which will be bestowed to Foreign Service high school seniors on May 2, 2008.  Winners receive $1,800 awards and Honorable Mention winners receive $800 awards.  Judges are individuals from the Foreign Service community.   A total of $35,700 will be bestowed to 26 students.    

 Fifty four students applied for the Academic Merit Awards competing on their grade point average, Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores, two-page essay, letters of recommendation,
extra-curricular activities, and any special circumstances.  From the Academic Merit Award applicants, a Best Essay winner and a Community Service winner were selected.  Fifteen students submitted art applications under one of the following categories:  visual arts, musical arts, dance or creative writing.  Art applicants were judged on their art submission, letters of recommendation, two-page essay, and any special circumstances.

Eight named Academic Merit scholarships have been established, and these awards are bestowed to the highest scoring students.  These named scholarships, in alphabetical order, are:   

  1. Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW) Scholarship,
  2. John and Priscilla Becker Family Scholarship,
  3. Turner C. Cameron Memorial Scholarship (2 awards)
  4. John C. Leary Memorial Scholarship,
  5. Joanna and Robert Martin Scholarship – (2 awards), and the
  6. Donald S. Spigler Memorial and Maria Giuseppa Spigler Scholarship. 

  For more information on the AFSA Scholarship Program, contact Lori Dec at 202 944 5504 or dec@afsa.org or visit http://www.afsa.org/scholar/.

Academic Merit Winners - $1800
Iain Addleton
Joan Cummins –Spigler Scholar
Jason Curtis – AAFSW Scholar
Melissa Gallant
Hannah Groch-Begley
Michael Haggblade – Becker Scholar
Shannon Hicks – Leary Scholar
Christopher Huskey  – Martin Scholar
Nathan Keesling
Kate Miller 
Hana Passen – Cameron Scholar
E. Lowell Reade
Brendan Ternus – Martin Scholar
Paul VanKoughnett – Cameron Scholar
Benjamin Winnick 

Academic Merit Honorable Mention Winners - $800
Sarah Barnhart
Natalie Coley
Theodore Koenig
Fallon O'Dowd
Lauren Simpkins
Timothy Wong

Art Merit Winner - $1800
Brendan Ternus – creative writing

Art Merit  Honorable Mention
Winners - $800
Jason Curtis – musical arts
Elizabeth Hogeman – visual arts

Best Essay Winner - $250
Benjamin Winnick

Community Service Winner - $250
Margaret Soderholm

Thank you to the following individuals for serving as judges in the 2008 AFSA Merit Awards

Judges from the AFSA Committee on Education

Ambassador Edward Dillery, Chairman
Deborah Odell, State Representative
Carol Sutherland, State Representative
Iris Young, USAID Representative

Judges from the Foreign Service Community

Marcia Cole
Carolyn Connell
Morton Dworken
Eva Groening
Kasia Helbin-Travis
Melissa Hess
David Jones 
Barbara Nielsen
Bridget Roddy
Jane Tannenbaum
 Paul Wackerbarth
Sandra Yeaman