For more than half a century, the Seafarers Health and Benefits Plan (SHBP) has awarded scholarships to deserving Seafarers as well as to spouses and dependents of SIU members.This year, at a May 27 meeting in Santa Rosa, Calif., the Plan selected six dependents as recipients for the coming school year—for a total monetary value of $120,000. No awards were given to active Seafarers.
The scholarship winners are Sarah Abdelwahab, daughter of AB Mohamed Abdelwahab; Alice Cooper, daughter of tugboat captain James Cooper III; Nicole LaPointe, daughter of AB Robert LaPointe; Justine Lopez, daughter of Oiler Oswaldo Lopez; Marian O’Neill, daughter of QMED Guillermo O’Neill Jr.; and Jenna Stillman, daughter of AB Jerry Stillman.
The scholarship recipients were selected by a panel of professional educators: Dr. Gayle A. Olson, University of New Orleans (retired); Dr. Trevor Carpenter, Charles County (Md.) Community College (retired); Dr. Charles Lyons Jr., American Association of Colleges and Universities; Father David A. Boileau, Ph.D., Loyola University; Dr. Keith Schlender, Medical College of Ohio; Dr. Louis Fernandez, provost and vice president of academic affairs, California State (San Bernardino) and Dr. Henry Toutain of Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
See page 7 of the printed LOG (also available in PDF format from the page located HERE) for brief descriptions of the backgrounds and educational goals of the six college-bound students.
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