TGR Design – Design & Development Manager
The VGASF scholarship award, coupled with a golf scholarship, allowed me to focus on my studies & golf while furthering my education without the worry of student loans. The VGASF scholarship award provided me with the opportunity embark on my career path without the obligation of repaying student loans, it was a true blessing & an award that I’m still grateful for to this day.
Degree: Bachelor of Elementary Education
Math Teacher at Essex High School
The VGASF scholarship helped me pay my students expenses. I graduated debt free which has been terrific! I am a High School Math Teacher at Essex High School in Vermont.
Degree: BS In Secondary Education
Entrepreneur & Marketing Consultant
In a very tactical way, it paid for my books every semester for four years. More fundamentally though, it was a reminder of where I came from and the support behind me in Vermont and specifically in the golf community here.
I’m a entrepreneur and marketing consultant. Specifically, I am Vice President of a marketing agency in New York City (though I live in Randolph, Vermont) and I co-founded two start-ups: a coffee roasting company and a brewery, both located in Northfield.
The scholarship made college more affordable, which ultimately allowed me to attend the school of my choice. I credit my education at Western New England University with a lot of my success. More importantly though, the values I learned as a middle and high school kid playing golf where even more deeply instilled in me when I received the VCASF scholarship. Trust, honesty, integrity, and ethics where all discussed at the scholarship interview (which I still distinctively remember!) and I’ve apply them literally every day of my life as an entrepreneur. I’m now passing those same values on to my two kids (who are 7 and 9) as they pick up the game of golf.
Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration
Mississquoi Valley Union High School
My scholarship from VGASF provided much-needed financial aid to help pay for my undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. It also gave me the financial flexibility needed to study abroad for a semester in Auckland, New Zealand.
Location: University of Virginia
