Cataract Fire Company awards 3 Warwick residents $2,000 scholarships

Posted 6/23/16

Three Warwick residents were named Cataract Fire Company No. 2 Scholarship recipients and were each awarded a $2,088 scholarship during a ceremony held Monday at the Warwick school administration …

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Cataract Fire Company awards 3 Warwick residents $2,000 scholarships

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Three Warwick residents were named Cataract Fire Company No. 2 Scholarship recipients and were each awarded a $2,088 scholarship during a ceremony held Monday at the Warwick school administration building on Warwick Lake Avenue.

Alyson Kaye, a graduate of Toll Gate High School, will attend Maine College of Art; Douglas Cochran, a graduate of Rocky Hill School, will attend Rochester Institute of Technology; and Zach Librizzi, a graduate of St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket, will attend Johnson & Wales.

The Cataract Fire Company No. 2 Scholarship Fund was established in 1974 using proceeds from the sale of fire company property, now the Warwick Firefighters Club, after the city took over responsibility for firefighting. Two Cataract members and former volunteers, Richard McGuinn and Otis Wyatt, were instrumental in establishing the scholarship fund and together served on the scholarship committee for years. McGuinn passed away in 2009 and Wyatt retired from the committee after the 2013 selection and moved permanently to Florida. Current committee members are Ronald Caniglia, Stephen Hay, Richard Delgado, Michael Shields, and newest member Jenny Sayles.

The Cataract Fire Company Scholarship exists to benefit Warwick residents who are graduating from their final year of secondary school, regardless of which high school they attend. The goal of the program is to benefit students who demonstrate a strong commitment to post-secondary education but may not have achieved the highest academic excellence in high school. Recipients are selected based on academic standing below the top 10 percent of the class who demonstrate a financial need and a strong desire to pursue a course of higher education. The scholarship committee gives preference to children of Warwick firefighters in cases where a number of applicants meet the criteria.

Each year the program awards a minimum of three scholarships with the amounts determined by the earnings from the fund’s base investment and ongoing donations managed by the Rhode Island Foundation.

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