Episcopal Church Center announces scholarships
Episcopal News Service. July 18, 2007 [071807-02]
Emily Conboy, Senior at James Madison University in Virginia, is an intern at Episcopal Life
Forty-six individuals from many different dioceses recently received scholarships from trust fund administered by the Episcopal Church totaling $135,688.53.
The Episcopal Church Center Scholarship Committee meets twice a year to review applications and approve scholarships from the designated trust funds. The awards are given to individuals in accordance with the criteria for each trust fund.
The recipients of this round are (with tribal affiliations and states of residence where applicable):
The Missionary Education Fund award for education of native children was given to Terry Quilt, Lower Brule Sioux, South Dakota.
The Walter Nichols Hart award for education of Indian youth was given to Brandon Mauai, Standing Rock Sioux/Native Hawaiian, North Dakota; Angela Goodhouse, Standing Rock Sioux; Joel F. E. Smith and Talia Rose Arnon, all Shinnecock, Long Island.
The Joy Lyons award (a bequest from Eliza F. Tallmadge, in memory of Joy Lyons, to endow a memorial scholarship in one of the Indian schools) was given to Savanna James, Choctaw, Oklahoma.
The Thomas Balch award for scholarship assistance for American Indians/Native Americans was given to Wes Fox, Three Affiliated Tribes (Arikara), North Dakota.
The George C. Morris award for scholarship assistance for American Indians/Native Americans was given to Miles Roe, Shinnecock, Long Island.
The Christina Mason Gibson Memorial award for scholarship assistance to American Indians/Native Americans was given to Caressa Gonzales James, Choctaw, Oklahoma.
The Elizabeth S. Fowler award for minor children (under the age of 21) of Episcopal Church missionaries was given to Martin D. N. Brownridge and Alexander T. N. Brownridge, both of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and the Cathedral of St. George the Martyr.
The College Fund for Children of Missionaries award for scholarships for children of appointed missionaries was given to Claire I. Morck, El Mundo de Los Genios-Iglesia Episcopal Del Ecuador.
The James Thayer Addison Fellowship Fund award for young members of the Anglican Communion who are natives of areas formerly or now a part of the overseas work of the Episcopal Church, who desire to serve the church as church workers, clerical or lay, among their own people was given to John Mark Male and Shiela Cheruto Koskei.
The Mary J. Stroud award for youths at colleges formerly affiliated with the American Church Institute for Negroes was given to Serrano Montagno, Morehouse College, Diocese of Massachusetts, and Carolyn Richardson, Pomona College, Diocese of California.
The Theological Education Scholarships award for Asian and Pacific Island Americans scholarships was given to Nak-Hyon Joseph Joo, priest-in-charge, St. Patrick's Korean Episcopal Church, Oakland, California, and Ada Nagata, member, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hacienda Heights, California.
The Theological Education Scholarships award for Indian/Alaskan Natives scholarships was given to Armond Olson, Crow Creek, South Dakota; Delores Walters, Terry Star and Carmine Goodhouse, all Standing Rock Sioux, North Dakota; Sonja Keener, Cheyenne River Sioux, North Dakota; Raphael DeCoteau and Ken DeCoteau, both Turtle Mountain Chippewa, North Dakota.
The Black Clergy Development Fund award for recruitment and scholarship aid for Black postulants and candidates for holy orders in the Episcopal Church was given to April Alford, Episcopal Divinity School and Diocese of New Hampshire; Christopher Richardson, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of Southern Ohio; Lester MacKenzie, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of Los Angeles; Peter Kanyi, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of East Tennessee; John Daniels, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of Olympia; Debra Bennett Bexley Hall and Diocese of Long Island; Karen Davis, General Theological Seminary and Diocese of Long Island; Mary Reese, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of East Carolina; Joanna Hollis, Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Diocese of El Camino Real; Ronald Byrd, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of Michigan; Frazier Green, Virginia Theological Seminary and Diocese of Georgia; Phoebe Roaf, Virginia Theological Seminary and he Diocese of Louisiana, and John Carleton Hayden, St. George's Episcopal Church (Diocese of Washington).
The Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Fund award for scholarships in honor and memory of the work and ministry of Martin Luther King, Jr. was given to Marty Two Bulls, Oglala Sioux, South Dakota; Lindsay Dwarf, Standing Rock Sioux, North Dakota; Matthew P. Idicula, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Diocese of Chicago; Gnanaprabhu Subramanyam, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Woodside, New York, Diocese of Long Island; Tonowynn E. Sam, Navajo, Arizona, Barbara Fairbanks, Yankton Sioux, Minnesota, and Miles Roe, Shinnecock, Long Island.
The Memorial Fund Bequest of Howard A. Welch award for scholarships for secondary education for needy children and young adults was given to Phoebe Gallagher, Cherokee, New Jersey.
People interested in applying for future scholarships may contact the appropriate Episcopal Church ethnic missioner as listed here.