Sandy Hook Resident Wins Scholarship

Sandy Hook resident Dylan Kelleher has been awarded a $500 college scholarship from the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association. Dylan, a graduating senior of Newtown High School, will pursue a career in medicine at Dickinson College in the fall.

 For the tenth consecutive year, the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association has awarded college scholarship funds to help young people pursue careers in the “helping” professions.

Dylan is one of eight Connecticut high school seniors, one from each county in the state, who received funds from the statewide association.

 “The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association created this grant program to encourage students to follow their dreams and enter professions that provide emotional or physical support to families,” explains Daniel J. Ford, CFSP, CPC, a funeral director and president of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association. “As funeral directors, we help families during what can be very difficult times, so we understand how important these jobs are in providing assistance to people in need.”

To be eligible for the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association’s academic college scholarship program, candidates had to live in Connecticut, be a high school senior graduating in June 2009, be pursuing a career that provides emotional or physical support for families, and have maintained at least a B grade point average in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades.

Dylan was also recently awarded a John Montgomery Scholarship from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn..

The John Montgomery Scholarship is awarded to first-year student applicants to Dickinson College in recognition of superior academic achievement, community activities, and leadership in high school. It is renewable for three additional years of resident study at Dickinson or an affiliated academic-year study abroad program.