The Ward Melville Class of 2000 Alumni Award

For the 6th year in a row, we’re raising money to provide scholarships to exceptional graduating seniors at Ward Melville's Senior Awards Night. Thanks to your generosity, we’ve helped ten young Patriots in the past five years with scholarships totaling over $20,000 - and we’re back this year to keep the tradition going!

 

When we kicked off this fundraising effort last year, we were just coming out of what we thought were the last days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The last year has seen a lot of ups and downs, but what hasn't changed is the need to provide financial support to exceptional students graduating from Ward Melville, and our commitment to that cause.

 

Please join us in supporting the 6th Annual Class of 2000 Alumni Award. Our goal is to aid students who exemplify or inspire the same culture of open-mindedness and inclusivity that our class cultivated - and are students who are committed to continuing this way of being in their futures. We want to recognize students who made Ward Melville a better place in their time there, and who will carry with them the ambition to make their future communities a better place for everyone, long after they graduate.

 

As always, we appreciate any amount you can give. And help us spread the word - anyone can donate, whether they’re Melville graduates from another class, friends, family members, coworkers, etc. The more the merrier!

 

Thank you very much for your generosity, and Go Patriots!

 

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Note: The Founding Members of this award are listed below. These members will make the final determination of the scholarship recipient(s), based on information provided through an essay application process run by the faculty and staff committee in charge of Senior Awards Night at Ward Melville.

 

Shara Purcell Angell

Dan Barry

Dorothy Jean Chang

Dan Cohen

Alison Delaney

Harrison Harvey

Sandy Kreis Lacey

Jenna Nelson Lorandini

Chris Passavia

Dan Reilly

Daniel Rubinstein

David Ruttura

Marissa Ehmann Schaudies

Jenna Steinhauer Wallace

David Yanni

Michelle Young

 

As in prior years, the Class of 2000 Alumni Award Founding Members will encourage strong consideration from candidates who are:

 

• In financial need

• Graduating with a big vision and plan for how they will change the world for the better

• Female

• LGBTQ+

• An ethnic or racial minority

• Non-U.S. born

• Disabled

• The first in their family to attend college

• Possessing career ambitions that include action in politics, civic engagement, public education, non-profits, social justice or human rights work, journalism, the arts, science and climate change, pro-bono and advocacy law.