SCHOLARSHIP STORIES
Scholarships from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation have helped send thousands of students to college, giving them opportunities that might otherwise be unavailable. Here are a few stories from students and the funds that support them.
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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS
To its recipients, it's a scholarship fund known as the Tabor Foundation. But this unique fund is more much - a chance for health care workers to advance in their careers, and for their communities to reap the results.
READ AMBER'S STORY |
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Cristian Umana
Cristian Umana discovered his passion for environmental science and sustainability when he was just 13 years old. He was enrolled in a summer environmental science program at the Hotchkiss School. It was then that he decided to continue learning about - and eventually base his career path on - protecting the environment.
READ CRISTIAN'S STORY |
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My Life-Changing Story
When I was ten years old, I accompanied my mom to graduation at Smith College. Listening to the speaker, Elizabeth Dole, I was in awe and realized how much I wanted to go to college.
READ TARSI'S STORY |
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Rhoda Rubin
A single mother who held down two, and sometimes three, jobs, Rhoda Rubin was honored by her three children through a scholarship fund that helps students studying to become nurses.
READ RHODA'S STORY |
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The Teddy Lee Drumm Memorial Scholarship Fund
Ted and Buena Drumm started a scholarship fund to help college-bound high school seniors from Sharon, Conn. When their son, also named Ted, died suddenly of a heart attack in 1999 at the age of 46, the Drumms were inspired to turn their scholarship idea into a “bittersweet memorial,” as Ted points it, for their only son.
READ TED'S STORY |