Westbrook Foundation Awards $170,900 in Scholarships to Members of the Class of 2021

Press release

In June, the Westbrook Foundation awarded scholarships totaling $170,900 to the town’s graduating high school seniors to support their post-secondary educational pursuits. The Foundation also awarded $7,000 in scholarships to Westbrook residents currently enrolled in college and graduate programs and administered $4,000 in scholarships for the Westbrook Education Association.

“The Westbrook Foundation is proud and honored to recognize our town’s young people with scholarships. We hope our financial support helps to ease the burden of the significant price tag on post-secondary education, and we wish all of the scholarship recipients the best of luck as they move into the next phase of their lives,” said Westbrook Foundation Scholarship Chair Joan Angelini.

The following members of the Westbrook High School Class of 2021 received the Foundation’s most competitive scholarships, totaling $115,000:

Marguerite Bartlett: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Leadership Award and Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Cierra Brundage: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award and Elliot A. Spencer Memorial Scholarship

Michael Cox: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Academic Achievement Award

Colin Heilmann: Henry Ortner, Jr. Memorial Scholarship and Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Lauren Horne: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Kiley McCarthy: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Academic Achievement Award

Jesse McGannon: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award and Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Academic Achievement Award

Jack Naccarato: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Daniel Ruppenicker: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Karen Sicha: Henry Ortner, Jr. Memorial Scholarship and Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Spirit of Westbrook Award

Luca Troop: Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Good Citizen Award

Graduating high school seniors from Westbrook also received the following scholarships:

Calderari-Hoxsie-Schubert-Steinson Veteran’s Scholarship: Karen Sicha

Eileen M. Daily Scholarship: Jesse McGannon

Lew Daniels Scholarship: Nicholas Palumbo

Dorothy Christopher Hoyt Scholarship: Nicholas Palumbo

Manstan-Nolf Memorial Technology Education Scholarship: Tyler Hoadley

Marie Mazeau Scholarship: Tyler Hoadley

Patricia Mazeau and Myrtie Gareau Scholarship: Luca Troop

Krysta Brielle Morant Memorial Scholarship: Marguerite Bartlett

Herbert A. Muller, Jr. Memorial Scholarship: Lauren Horne

Ellen S. Murphy Scholarship: Kayla Arevalo

Brandon E. Norman Scholarship: Nicholas Palumbo

Dan Nuhn Memorial Scholarship: Alexa Malazzi

Shoreline Amateur Radio Club Scholarship: Michael Cox

Westbrook Education Association Peter M. D’Errico Award: Kiley McCarthy

Westbrook Education Association Daisy Ingraham Memorial Scholarship: Jesse McGannon

Westbrook Education Association Scholarship: Michael Cox and Lauren Horne

Barbara Spencer Memorial Scholarship Special Awards: Noslin Antunez, Kayla Arevalo, Brenden Engels, Isabelle Esposito, Elizabeth Gallagher, Megan Greaves, Tyler Hoadley, Elizabeth Leake (a member of The Williams School Class of 2021), Alexa, Malazzi, Kiley, McCarthy, Devin Mulvihill, Brooke Neri, Nicholas Palumbo, Emma Parkhurst, Bailey Roberts, Hannah, Schilling, Cole Strzelecki, Luca Troop, Zachary True, Cooper Whitehouse, Gareth Whitehouse, Brianne Yancey, and Zachary Zanzalari

The Westbrook Foundation also awarded Messerschmidt scholarships to Westbrook residents currently enrolled in college or graduate school. The following individuals each received scholarships: Danyelle Engels, Jaclyn Grace, Kaitlyn Luft, Sarah Luft, Micayla Malchiodi, Daniel Perreault, and Rebecca Rowe-Indich