During the scholarship award dinner for the sixth annual Edward Taylor Coombs Foundation Golf Outing, the Foundation distributed $60,000 in scholarships to 25 students, bringing the total amount of scholarships awarded the last six years to a whopping $360,000.
Scholarship recipients are:
Hatboro-Horsham High School
Brynn Griffith: $5,000 HH Scholarship
Michael Willison: $3,500 Scholarship
Megan O’Keefe: $2,500 Commonwealth Scholarship
Brian Acquaviva: $2,500 Scholarship
Kaitlyn Wallace: $1,000 Book Award
Daniella Slowak: $1,000 Book Award
Archbishop Wood High School
Johnny Mallozzi: $3,000 Edward Taylor Coombs Legacy Scholarship
Strath Haven High School
Emma Cormican: $4,000 Scholarship
Mary Kent: $4,000 Scholarship
Joe Shiba: $4,000 Scholarship
Claire Van Duyne: $4,000 Scholarship
Girard College
Reginald Morgan: $2,000 Scholarship
Sierra Walker: $2,000 Scholarship
Rashae Benbow: $500 Book Award
Stanton Hare: $500 Book Award
Satara Powell: $500 Book Award
Khiyyiel Smith: $500 Book Award
Sameese Smith: $500 Book Award
Jack & Jill Montgomery County, PA
Michael Gibson: $2,000 Scholarship
Alexi Capers: $1,500 Scholarship
Hunter Smith: $1,500 Scholarship
Jade Kemp: $1,000 Scholarship
Marist College Freshman Lacrosse Scholarship: $10,000
The Links, Montgomery County, PA Chapter: $1,000 Scholarship
Curtis Griffin, Hatboro-Horsham School District Superintendent, serves on the Foundation’s scholarship committee.
“When I reviewed the applications each year I’m always amazed at the quality of not just academics, but also giving back to the community,” Curtis said, adding that scholarship candidates and awardees are “absolutely impressive” and offer a good indication of “who our children are going to be.”
Johnny Mallozzi, a 2017 Archbishop Wood graduate, received the Edward Taylor Coombs Legacy Scholarship. Johnny, who plans to study business management at Cabrini College, knows the Coombs family from church and is an active Foundation volunteer.
Edward, who died when Johnny was 12 years old, had coached him in lacrosse.
“Everything they do for everybody else makes me want to do something good,” Johnny said of the Coombs family. “I love the family.”
