SIMI VALLEY, Calif.,
June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In
a celebration on June 25, 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 winners are:
- Aisho Salim Ali, from Columbus, Ohio; attending The Ohio State University
- Jessica Maria Bradley,
from Hoover, Alabama; attending
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Nelson Chow, from
Lynbrook, New York; attending
Princeton University
- Normandie Alise Cormier,
from Lafayette, Louisiana;
attending Xavier University of
Louisiana
- Lauren Devletian, from
Exton, Pennsylvania; attending
Dartmouth College
- Nefertari Elshiekh, from
East Elmhurst, New York; attending
University of Central Florida
- Tabitha Lee Escalante,
from Pemberville, Ohio; attending
Harvard University
- Jessi Morgan Figard, from
Davidson, North Carolina;
attending Carnegie Mellon
University
- Peyton A. Gomez, from
Lakewood, Washington; attending
University of Washington
- Cade Jenlink, from
Jet, Oklahoma; attending
Oklahoma State University
- Grace Ra Kim, from
Germantown, Maryland; attending
Harvard University
- Emma Lowden, from
Winterset, Iowa; attending
Central College
- Anna Mathis, from
Harrison, Arkansas; attending
University of Arkansas
- Mofeed Nagib, from
Towson, Maryland; attending
Yale University
- Chad Niemeier, from
Beatrice, Nebraska; attending
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Gentry Shapland, from Dighton,
Kansas; attending Kansas State
University
- Chibuike Uwakwe, from
Wilson, North Carolina; attending
Harvard University
- Ashley Wilson, from
Copperas Cove, Texas; attending
Baylor University
The eighteen 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 ninth year, has awarded $7 million to 175 students.
"This year's applicants and scholarship recipients are a
remarkable group of young adults," said John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. "We are proud to
award college scholarships in President Reagan's name to these
proactive, informed and engaged citizens, who will only continue to
make a difference in their communities and our nation in the years
to come."
"We congratulate this year's recipients of the GE-Reagan
Foundation Scholarship," said Tony
Denhart, University Relations Director for GE. "As they
embark on their journeys of higher education, I look forward to
their accomplishments and the lasting impact that they'll bring to
their communities and the world."
The GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program was recently 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 sole nonprofit organization created by President
Reagan charged 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, Calif.,
the Reagan Center for Public Affairs, the Presidential Learning
Center, The Air Force One Pavilion, the award-winning Discovery
Center and the Reagan Institute, which carries out the Foundation's
mission in Washington,
D.C. The Reagan Library houses over 55 million pages of
Gubernatorial, Presidential and personal papers and over 60,000
gifts and artifacts 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
Sasha Houlihan, GE
Sasha.Houlihan@ge.com
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