SIMI VALLEY, Calif.,
July 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In
a virtual celebration on June 26, the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in partnership
with GE recognized this year's class of GE-Reagan Foundation
Scholarship Program award winners. The recipients are:
- Parth Amin, from
Van Nuys, California; attending
Dartmouth College
- Adina Cazacu-De Luca,
from Severn, Maryland; attending
Columbia University
- Michael Chen, from
Green Cove Springs, Florida;
attending Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
- Elliott Detjen, from
Draper, Utah; attending
Harvard University
- Chase Eastham, from
Somerset, Kentucky; attending
University of Kentucky
- Creighton Harrington,
from Loup City, Nebraska;
attending Chadron State College
- Eleanor Hummel, from
Louisville, Kentucky; attending
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
- Andrew Pasco, from
Haddonfield, New Jersey; attending
California Institute of Technology
- Braedon Price, from
Bowling Green, Kentucky; attending
Harvard University
- Emma Wiley, from
Jackson, Ohio; attending The
Ohio State University
The ten students will receive $10,000 per year for up to four years towards
college tuition and room and board. To date, the scholarship
program, now in its tenth year, has awarded $7 million to 175 students.
"In these uncertain times, now more than ever, we need today's
youth to be strong, hopeful and thought-provoking," said
John Heubusch, executive director of
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. "We are
honored to award college scholarships in President Reagan's name to
these proactive, informed and engaged young adults, who will only
continue to make a difference in their communities and our nation
in the years to come."
"This year's recipients represent President Reagan's
characteristics of leadership, optimism, service to others, and
most importantly, persistence," said Tony
Denhart, University Relations Director for GE. "As they
embark on their journey in higher education during an unprecedented
time, these traits will serve them well, and I look forward to
seeing the lasting impact that they'll bring to their communities
and the world."
The GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program has been cited by
U.S. News and World Report as one of four "huge scholarships
worth $10,000 or more" that students
should seriously consider. The scholarship selection committee
evaluated the applicants on four values personified by President
Reagan: Leadership, drive, integrity, and citizenship.
About The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and
Institute:
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and
Institute is the nonprofit organization created by President Reagan
himself and specifically charged by him with continuing his legacy
and sharing his principles - individual liberty, economic
opportunity, global democracy and national pride. The Foundation is
a non-partisan organization which sustains the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library and Museum in Simi
Valley, CA, the Reagan Center for Public Affairs, the
Presidential Learning Center, The Air Force One Pavilion and the
award-winning Discovery Center, as well as the Reagan Institute,
which carries out the Foundation's work in Washington, D.C.
The Reagan Library houses over 60 million pages of
Gubernatorial, Presidential and personal papers, over 1.6 million
photographs, a half million feet of motion picture film, 25,000
audio recordings, 22,000 video recordings, and over 83,000 objects
chronicling the lives of Ronald and Nancy
Reagan. It also serves as the final resting place of
America's 40th President and his First Lady.
www.reaganfoundation.org
About GE:
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world's Digital
Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined
machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and
predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge,
the "GE Store," through which each business shares and accesses the
same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention
further fuels innovation and application across our industrial
sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers
better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.
www.ge.com
Media Contacts:
Melissa Giller, Reagan
Foundation
mgiller@reaganfoundation.org
Jeff Caywood, GE
Jeff.caywood@ge.com
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