Recognized
WATERFORD — Charter Oak Federal Credit Union recognized the accomplishments of 39 college-bound students where each student was awarded one $2,000 scholarship.
“In January, we formally announced the expansion of our scholarship program stating that our annual investment in Connecticut’s youth was going to increase by six times,” said Brian A. Orenstein, Charter Oak’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “And I’m honored to say that we’ve gone above that figure – by awarding $78,000 in college scholarships in 2015.”
Previously, Charter Oak had awarded six scholarships annually, totaling $12,000.
Charter Oak’s expanded scholarship program offered one $2,000 scholarship award to one high school senior from each high school in New London and Windham counties with enrollment of 100 or more students. The credit union received nearly 150 applications from more than 25 high schools.
DANIELSON — Lisa Dauphinais of Killingly was recently named the July Employee of the Month by the Westview Health Care Center nomination committee.
Dauphinais joined the Westview team on May 29, 2008, and has worked as a full-time licensed (COTA) Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in the Therapy Department.
Dauphinais received her associate’s degree in occupational therapy at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester and also holds a bachelor degree in aquaculture and fisheries pathology from the University of Rhode Island.
NEWTON CENTRE, Mass. — Jane Linnard Hale, a native of Pomfret Center, was honored for outstanding academic achievements during commencement exercises at Andover Newton Theological School on Saturday, May 16.
Hale, who will earn a Master of Divinity in December 2015 upon completion of her coursework, was inducted into Andover Newton’s honors society, the Jonathan Edwards Society, named for the New England pastor and leading theologian of the colonial era. Members were nominated by the Rev. Dr. Mark S. Heim, Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology, and the Rev. Dr. Greg Mobley, Professor of Christian Bible, based on academic prowess and significant contributions in public service.
Jane lives in Pomfret Center with her husband, Laurence Hale, and their three children. She is a Postulant for ordination to the Priesthood in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, a member of Christ Church in Pomfret, and has served since 2013 as seminarian in residence at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Vernon.
The New Roxbury Land Trust has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Summer Hill Foundation and a $10,000 grant from Fields Pond Foundation. The awards will go toward the purchase of 84 acres in Union.
The land is located within a highly intact forest block in northeastern Connecticut, part of the federally designated National Heritage Corridor known as The Last Green Valley (TLGV). It will create a linking corridor between the approximately 9000-acre Nipmuck State Forest and privately protected lands in Union and Woodstock.
Anyone wishing more information on The New Roxbury Land Trust and its projects, may visit their web site, www.nrlt.org or its Facebook page, The New Roxbury Land Trust.