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.
Ten 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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