The annual Jeff Scholarship Awards were presented in late August to dependents of active, retired, and deceased members. The recipients of these awards were judged by the POA Scholarship Committee on their academics, extracurricular activities, community service, and a five hundred word essay. The topic chosen for this year was "Tell us about a mentoring program that you would like to develop and why."
The first place for the year 2010 goes to Megan O'Meara, daughter of active Officer James O'Meara of the Permit Bureau. Megan is attending the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and has received $3,000.00 towards her college education. Megan's winning essay is reprinted in this edition of the Journal.
This year the POA has awarded $24,500.00 in scholarships to college bound students. The funds for these awards are raised through the proceeds from the POA Golf Tournament. Every student who completed all phases of the application was awarded a scholarship. My thanks go out to the POA Scholarship Committee and especially to Gavin McEachern, Roland Tolosa, Robin Matthews, Kevin Lyons, Lynn Tomioka, Greg Suhr, Frank Hagan, Yvonne Pratt, Robert Vernengo, and Ed Hagan who spent many hours reading and grading the essays. Many thanks also to Courtney Dickson at the POA who spent many hours organizing and verifying information for the Committee.
On behalf of President Gary Delagnes and the entire Board of Directors I would like to congratulate all the recipients of this year Jeff Barker Scholarship Awards and wish all these students much success in their college years.
1st Place: $3,000.00
Megan O'Meara
Loyola Marymount University
Click Here to Read Megan's Winning Essay!
2nd Place: $2,000.00
Jennifer Burke
University of Portland
3rd Place: $1,000.00
Samantha DeLosada
Manhattan College
The following students were each awarded a $500.00 scholarship towards their college education.
Jordan Anderson
University Of California, Los Angeles
Gianna Armanino
Diablo Valley College
Zackery Bertrand
University of California, San Diego
Rachel Blomberg
Cornell University
Riley Blount
University of California, Davis
Thomas Boyle
Arizona State University
Timothy Breen
Santa Barbara City College
Rebecca Ciudad
Azusa Pacific University
Adam Coggan
Chapman University
Colleen Conefrey
Sonoma State University
Shannon Cunnane
Marquette University
Christina Daniele
University of Southern California
J. T. Delagnes
Santa Rosa Junior College
Megan Denny
Saint Mary's College of California
David Dito
University of California, Davis
Joseph Fegan
Sierra Junior College
Rory Fewer
New York University
Samantha Gardner
Boise State University
Michael Garrity
University of Oregon
Donna Greely
University of Nevada, Reno
Maureen Kaprosch
Saint Mary's College of California
Garett Knight
Sonoma State College
Matthew Laubach
College of Computer and Information Science
Elizabeth Levin
Whitman College
Jordan Louie
Skyline Community College
Braden Lyons
Humboldt State University
Jeffrey Mahoney
Chapman University
Krista Miloslavich
Canada Community College
Daniela Najarro
San Diego State University
Elissa Nesmith
Iona College
Peter Ng
Skyline Community College
Aaron Ogawa
Skyline Community College
Christian Rosko
Santa Rosa Junior College
Karissa Schiff
Diablo Valley College
Katie Stokes
Humboldt State University
Jonathan Sylvester
San Diego State University
Samantha Zurcher
College of Marin
