NEW YORK: Westwood Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Committee is proud to announce that on June 3, they awarded five scholarships in the amount of $2,500 each. The scholarship was started back in 2013, when the very first recipient, Amanda Pirola, received a $10,000 scholarship.
The scholarship, which was founded by the Chamber’s Executive Director, Joseph Abou-Daoud, Chamber President MaryAlice Farella, Board Member Frank Di Dolce and Professor Yash Risbud with the Fasciano Family, was named in memory of Elizabeth Fasciano.
Elizabeth was only seven when she passed away from a long battle with brain cancer.
In her memory, the scholarship was formed to help students follow a path in medicine with the hope of finding a cure for cancer. The scholarship committee restructured in 2014 and no scholarships were awarded that year. In 2015 the categories that the scholarships were awarded in were Medicine, Arts, S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), Sports and Student Perseverance.
The scholarship applicants must be eligible residents of Westwood/Township of Washington, have a record of volunteerism and a minimum of a 3.3 GPA, just to name a few of the requirements.
After a lengthy application process, the chamber received many applications in each category and narrowed them down to one student per category. The scholarship recipients were: Karl Seitz – Sports, Rachel Leao – Student Perseverance, Michelle Fegeley – Arts, Matthew Untalan – S.T.E.M. and Erin Mandeville – Medicine, all in memory and in honor of Elizabeth.
Congratulations to all recipients and thank you to all that have donated to the scholarship fund. The committee would like to thank the Fasciano Family for allowing them to name the scholarship in honor of Elizabeth.
