Recent Recipients

In 2021: $174,900 awarded to 51 students

The pictures below are of the 27 graduating high school seniors who received scholarships this year. In addition to these high school graduates, 24 returning college students applied for and received renewal scholarship awards for the upcoming school year.

Outer Banks Community Foundation 2021 Scholarship Recipients

 

Catherine Carrington Clawson Scholarship          

$2,000.00 to Wallace McCown from Manteo High School, Class of 2021

 

Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann Art Scholarship      

$3,500.00 to Aiden Beard from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$3,500.00 renewal to Isabella Bartell from Manteo High School, Class of 2020

$3,500.00 renewal to Zane Fish from First Flight High School, Class of 2019

$3,500.00 final renewal to Enrique Babilonia from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2018

 

Courtney M. Burgess Scholarship            

$1,500.00 renewal to Ashby King from First Flight High School, Class of 2020

$1,500.00 renewal to Cassidy Dietz from First Flight High School, Class of 2020

 

Curtis Creech Scholarship           

$1,700.00 renewal to Aiyana Mourino from Manteo High School, Class of 2019

 

Dare County Fire Officers Association Scholarship           

$1,500.00 to Amber Mann from Wanchese Christian Academy, Class of 2021

$1,500.00 to Wallace Piland from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$1,500.00 to Victor Caldera from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$1,500.00 to Eliza Quidley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

 

Dare Math Science Scholarship 

$1,700.00 final renewal to Christopher Zavala from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2018

 

Duck Woods Ladies Golf Association Founders Scholarship           

$2,000.00 to Wallace Piland from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Association Scholarship        

$1,200.00 to William Garman from Manteo High School, Class of 2021

$1,200.00 to Ragen Twiford from Manteo High School, Class of 2021

 

Elizabeth and Wayne Evans Scholarship

$5,000.00 to Laya Barley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$5,000.00 renewal to Litzy Velazquez Tovar from Manteo High School, Class of 2020

$5,000.00 renewal to Josefine Harmon from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2019

 

Frank M. Cahoon Scholarship

$1,600.00 to Cassie Honeycutt from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

George W. Neighbors Scholarship           

$1,300.00 renewal to Maximilian Janesik from Manteo High School, Class of 2020

 

Glenn & Pat Eure Scholarship for Arts Education             

$1,300.00 to Savannah Sawin from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

Greg and Eden Honeycutt Scholarship

$1,000.00 to Maria Bradley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$3,000.00 to Mason Fuller from Ocracoke High School, Class of 2021

 

Howell Revier Shearouse, Jr. Scholarship            

$5,000.00 renewal to Hannah Ellington from First Flight High School, Class of 2019

 

Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship

$3,000.00 to Laya Barley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

 

Jerry & Arlene Davis Scholarship             

$6,000.00 to Ivanna Gonzalez-Sanchez from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$6,000.00 renewal to Sara-Rae Midgett from First Flight High School, Class of 2020

$6,000.00 renewal to Brianna Curi-Giron from First Flight High School, Class of 2019

$6,000.00 final renewal to Vanessa Salazar from Manteo High School, Class of 2018

 

John T. Daniels, Lois Pearce Smith, and J. Bryan Smith Scholarship          

$2,000.00 final renewal to Elizabeth Wheless from Manteo High School, Class of 2018

 

Josephine A. Oden Scholarship 

$5,000.00 to Eliza Quidley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

 

Lillian Riddick Scholarship for Nurses     

$1,200.00 renewal to Litzy Velazquez Tovar from Manteo High School, Class of 2020

 

Lucian Griffin Scholarship           

$1,200.00 to Colleen Dongarra from NC School of Science and Math, Class of 2021

 

Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship    

$1,500.00 renewal to Camden Crook from First Flight High School, Class of 2020

$1,500.00 renewal to Josefine Harmon from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2019

$1,500.00 final renewal to Christopher Zavala from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2018

 

Milton A. Jewell Academic Scholarship 

$6,000.00 to Siena Nason from NC School of Science and Math, Class of 2021

$6,000.00 renewal to Judith Williams from First Flight High School, Class of 2020

$6,000.00 renewal to Isabel Estes from First Flight High School, Class of 2019

$6,000.00 final renewal to Elizabeth Wheless from Manteo High School, Class of 2018

$1,500.00 final renewal to Arabella Saunders from First Flight High School, Class of 2018

 

NC Press Club Bettye Neff Merit Award in Communications       

$600.00 final renewal to Arabella Saunders from First Flight High School, Class of 2018

 

OBX Scholars    

$4,000.00 to Ivanna Gonzalez-Sanchez from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$4,000.00 renewal to Albert DeMarco from First Flight High School, Class of 2019

$4,000.00 final renewal to Carlos Daniel Escobar-Roldan from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2018

 

Osborne Scholarship     

$1,500.00 to Eliza Quidley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 renewal to Dylan Gray from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2020

 

Outer Banks Association of Realtors Scholarship             

$1,000.00 to Andrew Austin from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Maria Bradley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Laura Hooper from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Kayla Dixon from Currituck High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Cassie Honeycutt from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to James Myers from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Savannah Sawin from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Jacob Thomas from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Morgan Antonacci from JP Knapp Early College High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Siena Nason from NC School of Science and Math, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Hannah O’Neal from Manteo High School, Class of 2021

$1,000.00 to Cathryn Daniels from Manteo High School  2021

 

Stewart Couch Hatteras Island Scholarship

$8,400.00 to Johan Briones from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

 

Ralph & Ida Lee Saunders Scholarship   

$1,000.00 renewal to Hannah Dozier from Currituck High School, Class of 2020

 

Rex Sample Scholarship for Courage and Determination              

$1,000.00 to Lydia Surprenant from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Scholarship          

$1,500.00 to Aiden Beard from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

Sawyer Scholarship       

$5,000.00 to Ethan Thorn from First Flight High School, Class of 2021

 

Scott Day Family Scholarship     

$1,000.00 renewal to Jillian Webster from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2019

 

Wallace H. McCown Scholarship             

$1,250.00 to Eliza Quidley from Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Class of 2021

$1,250.00 to William Garman from Manteo High School, Class of 2021

 

Partner scholarships

Managed by The College of Albemarle Workforce Development and Career Readiness Department (Continuing Education)

Billy G. Roughton Memorial Scholarship for Tourism and Hospitality

Joe Riddick Trade & Technical Scholarship

Milton A. Jewell Trade & Technical Scholarship

Milton A. Jewell Trade & Technical Scholarship for Hospitality

Vocational Opportunity Scholarship

 

Managed by The College of Albemarle Foundation

Billy G. Roughton Memorial Scholarship for Medical Professions

College of The Albemarle Scholarship

Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher Memorial Scholarship

ECB Land of Beginnings Living Legend Scholarship

First Flight Society Scholarship

Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Rotary Scholarship

Linda Porter’s Shear Genius Scholarship

North Banks Rotary Scholarship

Peggy O’Brien Scholarship

Sgt. Earl Murray Scholarship

Tom O’Brien Scholarship

 

Managed by the Manteo Rotary

Jennette U. McOwen Memorial Scholarship

Kellogg Cuthrell Manteo Rotary Scholarship

Manteo Rotary Club Scholarship

Manteo Rotary Meekins Scholarship

 

Managed by Mount Olivet United Methodist Church

Karen Phillips Memorial Scholarship