By Tom Tracy - Florida Catholic
Photographer: TOM TRACY | FC
Archbishop Thomas Wenski poses with student scholarship recipients at a closing banquet for the Miami Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's annual convention. From left: Sabrina Sousa of Blessed Trinity School, Marie Berdelie Seide of St. Helen School in Lauderdale Lakes and Lisdrasanac Louimeus of St. James School.
DEERFIELD BEACH | Three local eighth grade girls and their families � including one youngster who fled the 2010 Haiti earthquake � will get a financial head start at local Catholic high schools next fall thanks to the annual scholarship fund of the Miami Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women.
Mary Weber, scholarship committee chair for the MACCW, noted that each year applications are sent out to principals of archdiocesan elementary schools seeking student scholar recommendations from both the principal and pastor.
Photographer: TOM TRACY | FC
Mary Weber, chair of the scholarship committee for the Miami Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, speaks at the closing banquet of the organization's annual convention, held at the end of April.
Each girl is asked to write about why her education at a Catholic high school is important to her and her future goals. Each of the three students chosen this year will receive $6,000 in tuition support.
They are: Lisdrasanac Louimeus of St. James School in North Miami, Marie Berdelie Seide of St. Helen School in Fort Lauderdale, and Sabrina Sousa of Blessed Trinity School in Virginia Gardens.
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski was on hand to personally congratulate the recipients at the closing banquet of the MACCW’s annual convention, held in Deerfield Beach on the last weekend of April.
“The MACCW Scholarship Fund was established in 1996,” Weber said, “and here we are, 21 years later and over $230,000 has been awarded to over 53 scholarship recipients. All because of the thoughtfulness of a few good women.”
The MACCW holds a fundraising luncheon and silent auction each February that, along with some benefactors, enable the organization to generate the scholarship money, according to committee member Barbara Asfendis.
Weber noted that the recipients plan to attend the following archdiocesan schools: Lisdrasanac to Msgr. Edward Pace High School in Miami Gardens; Marie to Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale; and Sabrina to Immaculata-LaSalle High School in Miami.
