UH Hilo 2016 Dorrance Scholarship recipients announced

The four-year award provides local students who are the first in their family to attend college up to $10,000 a year in direct financial assistance.

Hilo sealTen high school seniors from Hawaiʻi Island who are enrolling this fall at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo have been awarded a Dorrance Scholarship.

The Dorrance Scholarship was established by Bennett and Jacquie Dorrance at the Arizona Community Foundation in June 1999. The four-year award provides local students who are the first in their family to attend college up to $10,000 a year in direct financial assistance. Recipients participate in a custom-designed summer bridge program, international travel, conservation experience, an entrepreneurship program, and employment preparation, bringing the total estimated value of each award to more than $90,000.

“Providing educational opportunities for first-generation college students is a core part of UH Hilo’s mission,” says Chancellor Don Straney. “The Dorrance Scholarship has become a model for how to effectively address that need.”

The 2016 Dorrance Scholarship recipients and their schools are:

  • Lexi Dalmacio, Honokaʻa High School
  • Twylah Marie Morelli, Konawaena High School
  • Alec Goodson, Kealakehe High School
  • Jordan Drewer, Hawaiʻi Academy of Arts and Science
  • Keinan Agonias, Pāhoa High School
  • Kaylyn Ells-Hookano, Hilo High School
  • Eva Abraham, Waiakea High School
  • Duke Escobar, Waiakea High School
  • Kahele Joaquin, Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo PCS
  • Yukio Ishii, Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi

The Dorrance Foundation began offering up to 10 scholarships a year to Hawaiʻi Island high school graduates attending UH Hilo in 2012. The latest awards bring the total number of recipients to 49.

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