Mission Scholarships Program Director Terri Rodick with scholarship recipient Lily.
Mission President John Zavodny offers advice on the elements of college success.
Former Mission President Scott Planting congratulates awardee Hannah.
Tristan, a former scholarship recipient, offering advice to the new awardees.
Group shot of the Mission’s 2019 Scholarship recipients.
BAR HARBOR, ME — After a several year hiatus, the Maine Seacoast Mission Scholarship BBQ, revived and renamed the Presidents Scholarship BBQ, was held earlier this month on the College of the Atlantic campus in Bar Harbor.
Several Mission presidents were in attendance, including Scott Planting (this was one of his favorite events during his tenure) and current President John Zavodny.
College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins welcomed the Mission scholarship recipients. All of the Presidents offered the students, headed off to different colleges, their best advice!
Maine Seacoast Mission Announces Its 2019 Scholarship Awards
BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission has announced its 2019 scholarship awards. The Seacoast Mission has 100-year history of providing financial support to promising young adults from Downeast and island communities. Scholarship Director Terri Rodick noted an overall increase in the 2019 total scholarship amount, commenting that “this year we renewed sixty scholarships totaling $106,500, and awarded twenty-eight new scholarships totaling $59,000.”
Mission scholarships are awarded on the basis of financial need and academic promise. Most scholarships are renewable, permitting students to reapply for all four years of college as long as they meet the Mission scholarship criteria. Scholarships range in amount from $1,500 – $5,000.
John Zavodny, Maine Seacoast Mission President, indicated that “the Mission has a long tradition of supporting the aspirations of the students involved in our educational programming – from their elementary school years, continuing through post-secondary opportunities. We look forward to continued investment in the potential of these young people, the future of our community,” said President Zavodny.
Among the Mission’s new scholarship recipients this year, Becca Blanch, an outstanding student at Washington Academy in East Machias received the Mary Turnbull Elliot Nursing Scholarship, a new scholarship award. Ms. Blanch, who has always known she wanted to be a nurse, will be attending Husson University in Bangor.
The David and Ann Ingram Scholarship was awarded to Matthew Correia from Sumner High School in Sullivan. Mr. Correia is a volunteer firefighter for Winter Harbor and has trained for certifications in CPR and first aid. The three-sport athlete looks forward to entering Eastern Maine Community College in the fall and will study Fire Science Technology, pursuing his passion.
The Mission’s Angus MacDonald Scholarship, named after one of the Mission’s founders, was awarded to Shead High School student Madison Greenlaw. Ms. Greenlaw has received academic recognition from the Maine Society of Women Engineers and Phi Beta Kappa. She has also served as President of the Passamaquoddy Chapter of the National Honor Society for the past two years. She will be a freshman at the Maine College of Health Professions in Lewiston in the fall.
Terri Rodick said applications and re-applications for the Mission’s 2020 Scholarships will be available from December 2019 to May 1, 2020. Ms. Rodick can be reached by email at trodick@seacoastmission.org.
BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission Program Director Terri Rodick reminds high school students and their families the deadline for Mission Scholarships is May 1, 2019. More information and applications are available at: https://www.seacoastmission.org/what-we-do/scholarships/
Dori LeMoine (Photo courtesy St. Joseph’s College of Maine)
BAR HARBOR, ME — Congratulations to Mission Scholarship recipient Dori LeMoine for earning the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Rookie of the Week.
According to a St. Joseph’s College of Maine news story (4/2/2019), freshman Dori LeMoine “shattered the (St. Joseph College) Monks’ outdoor records in the shot put (9.90m) and hammer throw (29.37) events in the UMass.-Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday.
LeMoine “already owns the Monks’ outdoor records for javelin throw (30.56m), shot put, and hammer throw as well as the indoor shot put mark (9.97m),” said the news story.
Mission Program Director for Scholarships Terri Rodick, in response to LeMoine’s athletic achievement said, “She is a great young woman. Shy, but funny. Family means very much to her.”
For the 2018 graduate of Mount Desert Island, “living on Swan’s Island and participating in extracurricular activities was no doubt a challenge,” continued Director Terri Rodick. “Dori is also a lobsterman during summers. She appreciates where she comes from and where she is going. If you ever need a helping hand, Dori LeMoine is one of the first to offer help,” said Rodick.
Learn more about the Mission Scholarships Programs.
UMaine GSBSE doctoral student Nicklaus Carter works on innovative research that could provide a solution to peripheral nerve regeneration with the use of nanocellulose materials. (Photo courtesy UMaine.)
BAR HARBOR, ME — Terri Rodick spotted this good news about former Mission scholarship alumni Nicklaus Carter. Mr. Carter was awarded Mission Scholarships 2011 – 2015. Today he is a doctoral student in University of Maine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Science, “turning forest biproduct into innovative medical research.”
“Carter has found that conduit-treated peripheral nerve injuries regenerated nearly four times faster than those not treated. He hopes his findings will advance future peripheral nerve regeneration,” said UMaine Media Contact Christel Peters.
Learn more about Mission Scholarship recipient Nicklaus Carter’s nanocellulose research.
The cover of Mission Scholarship alumni Emma Ressel’s new art photography book, Olives in the Street.
BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission Scholarships Program Manager Terri Rodick sends this link to Emma Ressel’s art photography book, reminding us, “Emma is one of our scholarship alumni. She received a scholarship all four years 2012-13,14,15. She graduated Mount Desert Island high school.”
Emma Ressel (b. Bar Harbor, Maine, 1994) is a fine-art photographer who creates surreal still life photographs of food. Her photographs are surprising compositions that do away with pure aesthetic pleasure and are unafraid to depict rot, nonsensical combinations of ingredients, and a vague, undefined story. Ressel recently had a solo show at Woods Gallery at Bard College, and her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in galleries including Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Ressel’s work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Applications and Re-applications for the Mission 2019 Scholarship Program are available now. Click here.
