Since 1947, the Sippican Woman’s Club has awarded scholarships to students who reside in Marion. Once again scholarships have been funded by proceeds from the club’s annual Holiday House Tour. Due to the pandemic, the prior three years scholarships were funded by donations from both individuals and the sale of luminaria kits to celebrate the Fourth of July. Thanks to everyone’s hard work, and the success of our various fund-raisers, we gave 10 awards totaling $15,400, based on academic accomplishments, community service, extracurricular activities and need.
The Club’s Scholarship Committee (Elise Frangos, Eileen Merlino, Kathleen Tibbetts) is pleased to announce the names of ten Marion residents graduating from high school who have been awarded scholarships toward higher learning. Scholarship recipients include seniors from ORR Regional High School – Jacob Hadley who will attend Brown University, Mariana Sudofsky (University of Washington, Seattle), Paetyn Tripp (Emmanuel College) and Tyler Young (UMass Lowell). Two other Marion Bishop Stang graduates include: Lillian Manning who will attend Providence College and Elizabeth Russo (UMass, Amherst). The Lu Chevrier Award (named for Lu Chevrier who served as President of the Sippican Woman’s Club in 1999-2001) and is given to a senior with an outstanding record of community service has been given to Adam Ouellette who attended Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School.
Three Continuing Education Students have received scholarships – Failenn Fitzpatrick who attends College of the Holy Cross, Laura Pardo (Villanova University) and Mason Tucker (University of Rhode Island).
The Alice Ryder Book Award has been presented to the highest-ranking English student in the middle school graduating class. This year’s recipient is Nathaniel James Tse. Alice A. Ryder was President of the Sippican Woman’s Club 1922-25, 1940-44, 1946-48.
For information about the club, please refer to our website: www.sippicanwomansclub.org.