2024 Award Recipient Silas Eckhardt with Richmond Association Officers Lindsey Bunting-Eubanks, Rusty Spears, Anneliese Brei and Scott Laws.

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2024 Scholarship Recipients
 

Thanks to your generosity, we proudly introduce five scholarship recipients for 2024

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Kaitlyn Williams

Kaitlyn has propelled herself academically by completing advanced courses, striving for an advanced studies diploma and taking dual enrollment coursework.  Kaitlyn has an intrinsic motivation to do her very best. She excels especially well in the area of science and demonstrates the capacity to articulate her thoughts very well. She is ranked 3rd out of 311 of her graduating peers and holds a 4.643 weighted grade point average. She has received the Academic Achievement Award for the past three year for her excellence in the classroom and completed an Associate degree from Richard Bland College of William and Mary in May 2024. Kaitlyn is interested in pursing a degree in Nursing. Her overall goal is to provide patient care for individuals. She is a very humble person. She shows a great level of passion towards her scholastic and personal development and demonstrates a maturity that exceeds that of her peers.

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Amudharani Vadivelmurugan

Throughout high school, Amudharani has successfully managed a rigorous course load while maintaining an impressive grade point average. Amudharani is an intelligent student who is sure to make a positive impact in post-secondary education. At school, Amudharani is inquisitive and self-motivated to achieve her goals. She is an AP Capstone candidate and College Board AP Scholar Award recipient. Amudharani is certainly a student leader in the school community and recognized as a leader among her peers. In the classroom, Amudharani is extremely conscientious and self-motivated to succeed. In the past 4 years, she has developed a keen interest in the field of animal sciences and plans to pursue a career in this field. She certainly displays strong leadership qualities and her teachers have stated that she sets the tone in the classroom when it comes to hard work and diligence.

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Jenniah Strattman-Lassiter:

Jenniah’s greatest career goal is to become a physician’s assistant. This aspiration stems from her passion for helping others and prolonged interest in the medical field. Jenniah is not only intelligent and hard-working but also fun to have in class. Her positive attitude is always appreciated, particularly when the content is difficult. She is highly engaged in several after school activities and takes an active part in the community such as her commitment to volunteering as the manager of our girls volleyball team and working in the school concession stands to help raise funds for school athletics.  Among her many activities, Jenniah has been president of the MHS Spanish Honor Society, member of our Student Council Association, National Honor Society and Public Relations Officer of Junior Class Council.  The first word that describes Jenniah is “compassionate.”  Jenniah has a sympathetic heart and is one of those people genuinely concerned with helping others. 

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Silas Eckhardt:

Silas is a recent graduate of Cardinal Newman Academy and will be attending Roanoke College where he plans to major in Biology and Environmental Studies.  He plans to pursue his own research in entomology as a Research Fellow there.  He is passionate about insects, especially beetles and wasps.  Under the direction of his unofficial mentor, Dr. Arthur V. Evans, the host of the VPM radio and animated series, “What’s Bugging You?”, he has developed a museum-quality collection of hundreds of insects; won the Youth Incentive Award from the Coleopterists Society; exhibited his work at the Henrico County "Bug Bizarre"; and arranged to donate a voucher collection of specimens to the Virginia Museum of Natural History.  Silas also has a deep love of music, playing the guitar and singing, especially songs by Wilco and Jeff Tweedy.