AMHS SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

The Scholarship Committee recently completed its work of reviewing and evaluating the four applicants who qualified for the two $4,000 AMHS scholarships that our Society, in partnership with the National Italian American Foundation, will award for the 2014-15 academic year. The Committee, composed of Peter Bell, Ray Bernero, Ray LaVerghetta, Romeo Sabatini and this writer, is proud to announce that the following two applicants were chosen as the winners of these scholarships:

Christina McGrath of Staten Island, New York and Sophia Labas of Alexandria, Virginia. Christina, who traces her Italian ancestry to the regions of Campania and Sicily, is a student of Italian language and art history at Georgetown University, where she will be a senior beginning in the fall. Sophia, whose Italian heritage lies in the region of Basilicata, was a senior at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School at the time of her application and will be an entering freshman this fall at Boston University where she will be studying Italian language and history.

As has customarily been done, Christina and Sophia will be invited to address the membership at one of our future general Society meetings, where you will be able to learn more about them and the importance of our scholarships to their studies. These scholarships are made possible through the generosity of those members who donated to our annual scholarship fund in 2013. Thank you.