In 2023: $213,200 awarded in 97 scholarships to 81 students.

Pictured are the 41 graduating high school seniors who received Community Foundation scholarships this spring. Three COA Dare Guarantee graduates also received scholarship support.

In addition, 29 returning college students applied for and received renewal scholarship awards for the 2023 – 2024 year. Plus the many partner scholarships below awarded.

Outer Banks Community Foundation 2023 Scholarship Recipients

Barbara Barnes Sherman Scholarship
Renewing Student Kate Hamilton First Flight High School $1,000
Best Family Scholarship
Graduating Senior Maggie Miller Manteo High School $1,000
Bill Jones Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Ivy Godwin Manteo High School $1,000
Graduating Senior Jeni Hooper Manteo High School $1,000
Renewing Student Chloe Clark First Flight High School $1,000
Renewing Student Kate Hamilton First Flight High School $1,000
Catherine Carrington Clawson Scholarship
Renewing Student Jordan Holcomb Manteo High School $2,000
Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann Art Scholarship
Renewing Student Aiden Beard First Flight High School $3,500
Graduating Senior Tommy May First Flight High School $3,500
Graduating Senior Fernanda Perez-Chavarria Manteo High School $3,500
Renewing Student Loxley Wayland First Flight High School $3,500
Courtney M. Burgess Memorial Scholarship
Renewing Student Kayla Hallac First Flight High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Chloe Wienert First Flight High School $1,500
Curtis Creech Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Alonah Austin Manteo High School $1,700
Dare County Association of Fire Officers Scholarship in Memory of Douglas A. Remaley
Graduating Senior Mackenzie Edwards First Flight High School $2,000
Graduating Senior Rachel Oesting Manteo High School $2,000
Graduating Senior Trent Sylvia First Flight High School $2,000
Graduating Senior Gavin Thompson Cape Hatteras Secondary School $2,000
Duck Woods Ladies Golf Founders Scholarship
Graduating Senior Blake Austin First Flight High School $2,000
Duck Woods Ladies’ Tennis Association Scholarship
Graduating Senior Olivia Sugg First Flight High School $1,500
Elizabeth and Wayne Evans Scholarship
Renewing Student Laya Barley Cape Hatteras Secondary School $5,000
Graduating Senior Daisy Morales Bravo First Flight High School $5,000
Renewing Student Ana Karen Alvarez-Isidoro $5,000
Renewing Student Mya Salch First Flight High School $5,000
Frank M. Cahoon Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Carlee Paramore Manteo High School $1,600
Gayle Grinstead Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Anita Lin JP Knapp Early College High School $2,500
George W. Neighbors Memorial Scholarship
Renewing Student Maximilian Janesik Manteo High School $1,300
Glenn & Pat Eure Endowment for Arts Education
Renewing Student Savannah Sawin First Flight High School $1,400
Greg & Eden Honeycutt Scholarship
Renewing Student Mason Fuller Ocracoke High School $3,000
Graduating Senior Alan Garcia Velazquez Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Hanft McDevitt Family Scholarship
COA Student Andrew Austin Cape Hatteras Secondary School $2,200
Howell Revier Shearouse Jr. Scholarship
Graduating Senior Jeni Hooper Manteo High School $5,000
Inez Daniel Austin Scholarship
Graduating Senior Maleia Quidley Cape Hatteras Secondary School $3,500
Irene Nolan Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Grace Shoemaker Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Jeannette U. McOwen Memorial Scholarship
COA Student Jordan Haywood First Flight High School $1,000
Renewing Student Amanda Hernley Manteo High School $1,000
Jerry & Arlene Davis Scholarship
Renewing Student Versailles Dalessio First Flight High School $6,000
Renewing Student Sara-Rae Midgett First Flight High School $6,000
Graduating Senior Ebony Orgsbon Manteo High School $6,000
Renewing Student Ivanna Gonzalez-Sanchez First Flight High School $6,000
John T. Daniels, Lois Pearce Smith, and J. Bryan Smith Scholarship
Renewing Student Kate Hamilton First Flight High School $1,000
Josephine A. Oden Scholarship
Renewing Student Eliza Quidley Cape Hatteras Secondary School $5,000
Lillian W. Riddick Scholarship for Nurses
Graduating Senior Casia Ensenat Cape Hatteras Secondary School $2,000
Lucian Griffin Scholarship
Renewing Student Colleen Dongarra NC School of Science and Math $750
Renewing Student Regan Parker Currituck High School $750
Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship
Renewing Student Camden Crook First Flight High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Kyla Mallory Manteo High School $1,000
Milton A. Jewell Scholarship
Renewing Student Maggie McNinch First Flight High School $6,000
Renewing Student Siena Nason NC School of Science and Math $6,000
Graduating Senior Colson Walker Manteo High School $6,000
Renewing Student Judith Williams First Flight High School $6,000
NCPC Bettye Neff Merit Award in Communications
Renewing Student Jackson Strange Ocracoke High School $700
OBX Scholars Fund
Renewing Student Ana Karen Alvarez-Isidoro Manteo High School $4,000
Graduating Senior Charlotte Ernst First Flight High School $4,000
Renewing Student Ivanna Gonzalez-Sanchez First Flight High School $4,000
COA Student John Cook Manteo High School $2,000
OBX Scholars After Prom
Graduating Senior Fernanda Perez-Chavarria Manteo High School $1,000
Osborne Scholarship
Renewing Student Dylan Gray Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Renewing Student Eliza Quidley Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Renewing Student Mya Salch First Flight High School $1,000
Graduating Senior Kiana Willis Manteo High School $1,000
Outer Banks Association of Realtors Scholarship
Graduating Senior Tyler Babcock JP Knapp Early College High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Tatum Dermatas First Flight High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Ella Gardiner Manteo High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Briana Lee Manteo High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Dylan Talley First Flight High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Rylee Young First Flight High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Jeni Hooper Manteo High School $1,500
Graduating Senior Gavin Thompson Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,500
R. Stewart Couch Hatteras Island Scholarship
Graduating Senior Alan Garcia Velazquez Cape Hatteras Secondary School $8,000
R. Wayne Gray Memorial Scholarship
Renewing Student Lane Stevenson Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,100
Ralph & Ida Lee Saunders Scholarship
Graduating Senior Joshua Royals Currituck High School $1,000
Rex Sample Scholarship for Courage and Determination
Graduating Senior Gwendalyn Botson First Flight High School $1,000
Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Chloe Wienert First Flight High School $1,500
SAGA Community Focus Scholarship
Graduating Senior Kevin Gonzalez-Herrera Manteo High School $1,000
Sawyer Scholarship Endowment
Renewing Student Ethan Thorn First Flight High School $5,000
Scott Day Family Scholarship
Renewing Student Jobell Porter Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Graduating Senior Alexis Zavala-Roldan Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Wallace H. McCown Memorial Scholarship
Graduating Senior Emily Benton First Flight High School $1,000
Graduating Senior Lilian Ratliff Cape Hatteras Secondary School $1,000
Graduating Senior Peyton Turner Manteo High School $1,000
Warren and Jane Davis Memorial Dare Math/Science Scholarship
Renewing Student Isaac Drummond Home Schooled $1,800
 

 

Partner Scholarships
Managed by The College of Albemarle Workforce Development and Career Readiness Department (Continuing Education):
 
Billy G. Roughton Memorial Scholarship for Tourism and Hospitality
 
Joe Riddick Trade & Technical Scholarship
 
Milton A. Jewell Trade & Technical Scholarship
 
Milton A. Jewell Trade & Technical Scholarship for Hospitality
 
Vocational Opportunity Scholarship
  Mikalee Gibbs
Managed by College of  the  Albemarle Foundation:
Billy G. Roughton Memorial Scholarship for Medical Professions
  Lauren Bolton
College of The Albemarle Scholarship
  Danielle Kimball
Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher Memorial Scholarship
  Austin Thompson

Litzy Anel Velazquez Tovar

ECB Land of Beginnings Living Legend Scholarship
  Mary Leigh Stroud
First Flight Society Scholarship
  Austin Thompson
First Flight Rotary Lacy J. McNeill Memorial Scholarship
 
Helping Hand Cookie Jar Scholarship
 
Linda Porter’s Shear Genius Scholarship
  Sasha Frink
North Banks Rotary Scholarship
  Kaylie Grooms

Trevor Bruce

Peggy O’Brien Scholarship
 
Sgt. Earl Murray Scholarship
  Leah Zeman
Tom O’Brien Scholarship
 
Managed by the Manteo Rotary:
 
Kellogg Cuthrell Manteo Rotary Scholarship
 Graduating Senior  Colson Walker
Manteo Rotary Club Scholarship
Graduating Senior 
Colson Walker
Manteo Rotary Club Sonny Albarty Memorial Scholarship Fund
Graduating Senior Liam Ryan
Manteo Rotary Meekins Scholarship
 College Student Adam Reed
Managed by Mount Olivet  United Methodist Church:
Karen Phillips Memorial Scholarship
College Student Genesis Gregory
College Student Elizabeth Hopkins

 

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