2019 Scholarship Recipients

Announcing the winners of the 2019 Community Foundation Scholarships

The scholarships awarded to students this year total $229,000. We are proud to work with and support these outstanding people.

Countywide

California Retired Teachers Association Division 55 Bessie Scott Scholarship Fund

  • Madison Watson – Laytonville High School

California Retired Teachers Association Division 55 Hilmer Finne Music Scholarship Fund

  • Ian Watson – Willits High School

Walter Camp STEM Scholarship Fund

  • Hannah Bosma – Fort Bragg High School
  • Cassidy Daniels – Fort Bragg High School
  • Sophia Taylor – Leggett High School

Hammond Trust Emergency Services Scholarship Fund

  • Darrell Buzzard – Willits High School
  • James Brown – Willits High School

Continuing

  • Ben Branscomb – Mendocino College
  • Clayton Ronk – Mendocino College

Mendocino Agricultural Families' Scholarship Fund (Winegrowers' Scholarship Fund)

  • Jasmin Martinez – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Jose Gallegos Ruiz – CSU Sacramento
  • Abraham Sanchez – UC Davis

Marge Pardini Philanthropy Scholarship Fund

  • Tanner Whetzel – Ukiah High School
  • Lindzey Rozelski – Ukiah High School

Jesse Pittman Memorial Scholarship Fund

  • Kortney Wyatt – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Tony Pardini – UC Davis
  • James Carlin – Boston College
  • Morgan Kobler – Cal Poly SLO

The Skye Scholarship Fund

  • Joseline Espinoza – Anderson Valley High School
  • Davina Gomez – Willits High School
  • Madison Watson – Laytonville High School
  • Jimena Guerrero – Anderson Valley High School
  • Emmet Reilly - Homeschool
  • Misha Kopelman – Mendocino High School

Continuing

  • Abigail Calderon – Mendocino College
  • Nicholas Hebel – UC Berkeley

MCHC Health Centers Linnea Hunter Scholarship

  • Jimena Castenada – CSU Sacramento
  • Daniel Lieben – Ukiah High School

Community Foundation of Mendocino County Scholarship Fund

  • Guadalupe Santamaria – Willits High School
  • Daniel Lieben – Ukiah High School
  • Hendrick Telfer – Ukiah High School
  • Demitri Eaquinto-Marston – Ukiah High School
  • Avery Barrett – Ukiah High School
  • Emma Dattilo – Ukiah High School
  • Brooke Hofstetter – Ukiah High School
  • Marciela Rodrigues – Ukiah High School
  • Melanie Lagunas­ – Anderson Valley High School
  • Hannah Wolfenden – Anderson Valley High School
  • Candelaria Gaona – Point Arena High School
  • Madison Van Pelt – Fort Bragg High School
  • Carlos Hernandez – Fort Bragg High School
  • Javier Mora – Fort Bragg High School

Continuing

  • Kiera Poehlmann – Fort Lewis College
  • Savion Cook – UC Santa Cruz
  • Abigail Martinez Cervera – CSU Sacramento
  • Ricardo Josie Manzano – Mendocino College
  • Kayla Venegas – CSU San Fransisco
  • Celeste Munoz – UC Santa Clara
  • Isabella Soboleski – Cal Poly SLO
  • Max Whaley – Tufts University
  • Belen Aban – CSU Sacramento

Coast

The Alma and August Mendosa Scholarship Fund

  • Rachel Malik – Mendocino High School
  • Misha Kopelman – Mendocino High School

Continuing

  • Jazmin Atherton-Walsh – UC Davis
  • Aimee Gordon – UC Santa Cruz
  • Olivia Grinberg-Phillips – Columbia University
  • Hannah Moore – UC Irvine
  • Kaiyana Aldrich-Walters – Cal Poly SLO
  • Xiao Jin Jackson – UC Berkeley
  • Carmen Searles – School of the Art Institute of Chacago

Jerry Juhl Fund for the Arts Scholarship Fund

  • Maria Ramos – Fort Bragg High School

The Todd Hudson Memorial Basketball Scholarship Fund

  • Natallea Bazor – Fort Bragg High School

Continuing

  • Clay Pyorre – Shasta College
  • Daniel Cook – Mendocino College

Fionna and Richard Perkins Scholarship Fund

  • Jillian Koski – Mendocino College

Inland

McCarthy and Whitcomb Inland Performing Arts Scholarship Fund

  • Zoe Krofchik – Ukiah High School

The John Haschak Public Service Scholarship Fund (Willits, Laytonville, Round Valley)

  • Savanna Hofmaister – Willits High School
  • Mariah Cox – Laytonville High School
  • Emily Escareno-Arteaga – Round Valley High School

Anderson Valley

M. Cecil and Alice M. Gowan Memorial Scholarship

  • Mauricio Sanchez – Anderson Valley High School

Laytonville

The Ain't Noth'n Ever Been Got That Ain't Been Went Out After/Terwilliger Trust Scholarship Fund

  • Madison Watson – Laytonville High School

Continuing

  • Kassandra Basler – CSU San Fransisco

The Jonathan Family Scholarship Fund

  • Roy Leone – Willits High School

Ukiah

Ryan & Collin Petitte Memorial Scholarship Fund

  • Ayled Zazueta – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Ruby Telfer – UC Davis
  • Charles Lucchesi – UC Davis

Ukiah High School Class of 1960 Scholarship Fund

  • Ayled Zazueta – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Carlos Melchor – CSU Chico

David Joseph Talamo Memorial Athletic Scholarship Fund

  • Taylin Cash – Ukiah High School

Warren "Ed" Brown Scholarship

  • Hendrik Telfer – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Lucas Robinson – John Hopkins University
  • Cooper Clark – UC Berkeley
  • Rosa Delgado – Northeastern University

Viola L. Allen and Oscar A. Allen Scholarship Fund

  • Rilley Iversen – Ukiah High School
  • Vanessa Cruz-Ceja – Ukiah High School
  • Sierra Pittman – Ukiah High School
  • Olivia Lucchetti – Ukiah High School
  • Josefina Cavalin – Ukiah High School
  • Yajari Mendoza – Ukiah High School
  • Maria Zepeda – Ukiah High School
  • Kylie Thurston – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Karen Delgado – Santa Rosa Junior College
  • Madeline Parducci – CSU Chico
  • Kenzi Wattenburger – University of Missouri

Woman’s Opportunity Scholarship Fund

  • Maria Zepeda – Ukiah High School
  • Selene Bahena – Ukiah High School
  • Alejandra Toledo – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Xochitl Gutierrez – CSU San Fransisco
  • Tabitha Miles – CSU Sonoma

Jean Cannon Scholarship Fund

  • Vanessa Cruz-Ceja – Ukiah High School
  • Madisyn Randolph – Ukiah High School

Continuing

  • Cheyenne Meier-Rubio – UC Southern California

Paul and Linda Shimmin Scholarship Fund

  • Ashton Stanley – Ukiah High School
  • Taylin Cash – Ukiah High School
  • Kylie Thurston – Ukiah High School

Willits

Dr. Charles O. and Harriett C. Smith Memorial Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Fund

  • Jairo Carillo – Willits High School

Randy Clark Memorial Vocational Scholarship Fund

  • Taylor Watts – Willits High School
  • James Brown – Willits High School
  • Sean Rodriguez – Willits High School

Penserra Founder’s Scholarship 

  • Byron Torres – Willits High School

Continuing

  • Nicole Karkar – University of Hawaii
  • Fatima Perez – Mendocino College

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