Mission announces inaugural Davis Maine Scholarship recipients  – Mount Desert Islander

NORTHEAST HARBOR — Maine Seacoast Mission has introduced that its inaugural cohort of Davis Maine Scholarship college students have made their faculty selections. By means of Andrew Davis and the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund, these six college students from Washington County and japanese Hancock County have earned the chance to pursue undergraduate research with full, four-year scholarships at considered one of three accomplice schools: Clark College and Wheaton Faculty in Massachusetts and the College of New England in Maine. 

The Davis Maine Scholarship was created to make sure extra college students who’re among the many first from their households to attend faculty and are from rural Washington County and japanese Hancock County can pursue and full undergraduate levels untethered by monetary burden.  

The inaugural Class of 2022 Davis Maine Students embrace Mya Abbott, of Franklin, who graduated from Sumner Memorial Excessive Faculty and will probably be going to Wheaton Faculty; Lisett Anderson, of Harrington, who graduated from Narraguagus Excessive Faculty and will probably be going to the College of New England; Rachel Colby, of Gouldsboro, who graduated from Sumner Memorial Excessive Faculty and will probably be attending the College of New England; Emilee Hutchins, of Winter Harbor, who graduated from Sumner Memorial Excessive Faculty and will probably be attending the College of New England; Ana Rosa Valencia Jungo, of Sullivan, who graduated from Sumner Memorial Excessive Faculty and will probably be attending Wheaton Faculty; and Mali Smith, of Columbia Falls, who graduated from Narraguagus Excessive Faculty and will probably be going to the College of New England. 

“Every considered one of these deserving younger folks have already had an inspiring instructional journey. The Mission is proud to be part of supporting them on the subsequent vital leg. Our partnership with Mr. Davis and the Fund is grounded by a shared perception in Downeast youth,” mentioned Mission President John Zavodny. 

Along with the monetary assist they obtain, Davis Maine students profit from program steerage and alternatives to make sure their profitable transition to school, persistence by faculty and completion of their undergraduate levels in 4 years. 

Maine Seacoast Mission seeks to strengthen coastal and island communities by educating youth, supporting households and selling good well being by providing well being care, schooling, meals, shelter and religious assist by land and by sea. For extra info, go to www.seacoastmission.org.