Four new students have been awarded the Tara Xavier Foundation Scholarship for the 2014-2017 school years bringing the number of scholarship recipients up to 26 since the inception of the scholarship program in 2007. Receiving scholarships were former T.A. Thompson Junior School student Ralph Sealy, former C.H. Reeves Junior School student Shania Lewis, former H.O. Nash Junior School student Nastacia Turnquest and Monique Chandler of the TARA Project and St. John's College.
The four new recipients will all matriculate at St. John's College where they will join -- twelfth grade students Edwin Greenslade, Amanda Fowler and Jewel Sturrup; eleventh grade students Quentinn Moreice Forbes and Eleanore Simmons.
TARA Scholars enrolled at St. Anne's School include eleventh grade students Jeffon Stubbs and Delmonica Brown.
The Tara Xavier Hepburn Foundation scholarship which is for three years, tenth through twelfth grades, covers full tuition and the cost of books for recipients at the cost of approximately $5,000 per year per student. The scholarship is open to graduates of government junior schools and students of St. John's College and St. Anne's School who have successfully completed grade nine, and tenable at St. John's College and St. Anne's School.
In order to be considered for a scholarship, applicants must be nominated by their school, attain at least a 3.00 grade point average, have demonstrated leadership ability and/or community involvement; be of good moral character and successfully pass a minimum of five BJC subjects which must include English and Mathematics with a grade of "C" or better. Applicants also may be required to attend an interview.
The Tara Xavier Hepburn Foundation was launched on December 29, 2006 to celebrate the life of Hepburn, an exceptional young Bahamian who died at the age of 30 while studying law, after having completed a psychology degree. Out of pain and grief and trying to cope with the loss, Hepburn's family decided to keep Tara's memory alive through scholarship for students in high school. The Foundation is funded largely through donation.
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