MANCHESTER, N.H. — St. Mary’s Bank has announced the winners of its scholarship awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. Fifteen outstanding applicants received scholarships of $1,000 each.
St. Mary’s Bank increased the scholarship program this year from $12,000 to $15,000, helping more students.
“We are proud to recognize the hard work and accomplishments of all of our scholarship recipients,” said CEO Ron Covey. “I am so impressed by the winners. We wish them the best as they move forward with their education.”
St. Mary’s Bank received more than 100 applications, and the scholarship committee made their choices based on school and community involvement, work experience, and applicant responses to essay questions. All scholarship winners are either St. Mary’s Bank members or children of employees.
Recipients of the scholarships were honored in June at a reception at the St. Mary’s Bank headquarters.
The recipients and the schools they currently attend or plan to attend this fall include:
- Aidan Connolly, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
- Alexander Haley, LeTourneau University
- Autumn Simoneau, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Darianna Moschetto, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services
- Eilish Gunther, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Erin Cayer, Granite State College
- Gayatri Deshmukh, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services
- Hannah Desmarais, DePaul University
- Jake Silva, Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Jilian Jones, University of New Hampshire
- Jonathan Stodolski, Curry College
- Kyra Defosses, College of William and Mary
- Lauren Cardow, University of New Hampshire
- Trista Voisine, University of New Hampshire
- Van Vong, Southern New Hampshire University