Jane Forbes Clark, president of The Clark Foundation, announced the Board of Directors has approved first-year college scholarship grants to 181 students, totaling $711,300.
The Clark Foundation Scholarship Program includes the school districts of Cherry Valley-Springfield, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Gilbertsville-Mount Upton, Laurens, Milford, Morris, Mount Markham, Owen D. Young, Richfield Springs, Schenevus, Worcester, and the Otsego Area Occupational Center-BOCES.
Students receive Clark Foundation Scholarships based on academic achievement, citizenship qualities and service to their communities and schools. Approximately 700 students presently attending institutions of higher learning will be eligible for renewal of Clark Foundation grants for the next academic year.
The Foundation anticipates providing over $4.1 million in scholarships for the coming year, with close to 14,800 students having participated in the Program since its inception in 1961.
This year, The Clark Scholarship Foundation awarded 27 Mount Markham seniors a total of $98,300.
Photos and plans for those Mount Markham students who won are on Pages 7, 8 and 12.
Richfield Springs Central School students who received a Clark scholarship:
Kalen Barnhart, Maura Buck, Jordan Diliberto, Emily Diotte, Lauren Johnson, Isabel Luz, John Pavuk, Margaret Worobey.
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