Twenty Students Receive Osborn Academic Awards

from The Osborn Retirement Community

(September 4, 2008) The Sterling Park Residents Association at the Osborn in Rye awarded academic achievement awards to twenty students, all of them children of staff members at the retirement community. Among them was Mamaroneck resident Michelle Levy, daughter of Osborne staff member Alyssa Levy. Michelle will be using her award to help pay for studies at SUNY Old Westbury.

The other awardees ranged from recent high school graduates to those pursuing post-baccalaureate degrees. The parents are employed in a wide variety of departments from dining, Osborn Home Care, facilities, finance, environmental services, and nursing. One of the criteria for consideration for the award is that the student will continue in an educational program after high school. This may be a college or university program or a trade school.

Sterling Park Residents Association Academic Achievement Awards Committee members Mrs. Sylvia Greenberg, Mrs. Betty Menke, Mrs. Lily Lisman, and Dr. Edward Pasciuti with the staff and staff children who received the awards.

The annual meeting at which the Sterling Park Residents Association Academic Achievement Awards are presented brings together residents, staff, and staff children in their shared commitment to the power of education to help people achieve their goals. The awards are from a fund to which residents contribute voluntarily and which is then divided among the students.

This marks the fifth year that residents of Sterling Park, the independent living section of the Osborn retirement community, have organized and made personal contributions to fund the awards. Like other men and women of their generation, many of whom came from humble circumstances, education provided the route to their careers and enabled them to settle in this area and raise families. Based on this, the residents developed the idea for the awards and manage the program each year.

Academic Achievement Award recipients this year included: Samuel Kemp (Columbia University), Lindsy Portillo (National Youth Leadership Forum), Stephanie Baxter (Western Connecticut State or Stony Brook University), Eva Vives (Dominican College), Jevon Griffiths (Five Towns College), Tafari Smith (Rider University), Kuang-Ying Chen (Ithaca College), Ingrid Swanson (Boston University), Joseph Gorman (Boston University), Jason Cusumano (Bentley College), Marsha White (Northeastern University), Monali Patel (St. John's University), Alyssa Levy (SUNY Old Westbury), Keiji Ishiguri (Yale University), Diane Del Rosario (George Washington University), Benjamin Rajan (Stony Brook University) Nicholas Costa (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Aisha Beckett (Penn State University), Jibi Alexander (Binghamton University), and Andrew Buchanan (Lincoln Tech).

They are the sons and daughters, respectively, of Osborn employees Gregory Kemp, Sandra Sacaza, Sharon Graham, Jackie Perry, Michelle Young, Sandra Fuller, Shene-Fen Sharon, Linda Swanson, Mary Gorman, Geraldine Cusumano, Agatha Jules, Gopal Patel, Michelle Levy, Priscilla Ishigruri, Dominador Del Rosario, Annamma Rajan, Donna Costa, Shirley Beckett, Beena Alexander, and Joyce Buchanan.

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