2009 FAWCO Foundation
Education Awards Recipients

The FAWCO Foundation announced the recipients of the 2009 Education Awards at the FAWCO Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. FAWCO clubs nominated many bright individuals, of which 7 were chosen. Listed below are the recipients of The 2009 FAWCO Foundation Education Awards

ARTS AWARD
In Memory of Elaine Senigallia $5000

Drew Zaremba, his mother is a member of AWC Brussels

Editor-in-Chief of his High School newspaper, member of the Model United Nations, Eagle Scout, rock climber and excellent student, this young man has studied classical piano since age 6, and classical and jazz saxophone since age 10. His instructor describes him as “the most talented and determined student” she has encountered in her 25 years as a university and private instructor. He is also the leader of his own jazz group and his goal is to study in the U.S. for a career in the music industry.

SCIENCES AWARD in memory of Frieda Bacigalupo Natali -
sponsored in part by AIWC Genoa $5000

Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Myrick, her mother is a member of AWC Basel

From the age of 6, she has known that she wanted to be a doctor. Now in her 4th year of a six-year academic course that will be followed by a minimum further six years of residency, she is even more passionate about her career choice. Despite supporting herself with several part time jobs, she participates in the English Choir and maintains excellent grades. She is said by a member of the faculty to possess an unusual combination of intelligence, determination, responsibility, personal grace, common sense and the essential quality of a truly great physician: a fascination with the human condition.

HUMANITIES AWARD in memory of Gertude de Gallaix -
sponsored in part by AAWE Paris $5000

Hannah Jones, her mother is a member of AWC Zurich

Gold Award Girl Scout, Captain of the school swim team, volunteer at the local elementary school, member of the yearbook club, cross county team and Amnesty International, she also found time to spend a week volunteering at a Romanian orphanage. She is consistently on the school Honor Role. Having moved 14 times, she has experienced a variety of cultures and customs and feels that living in a foreign country has taught her first hand that all learning does not happen in the classroom. With her natural affinity for children, leadership skills, ambition and motivation, she is determined to become an influential teacher.

AWC Basel FAWCO MEMBERS AWARD FOR UNIVERSITY DEGREE STUDY PROGRAMS - 
sponsored by Shirley Kearney $5000

Elizabeth Suzanne Dyer, she is a member of AWC Lebanon

During her 29 years as a nurse, she has worked in four U.S. states and two foreign countries. Her home for the last thirteen years has been in Lebanon, where she presented herself as a candidate for the Consultancy with the Ministry of Health Accreditation Project, positively impacting the professional lives of bedside nurses. Her goal now is to gain a degree to become a Nurse Educator, continuing in her words “to strive to be a positive agent of change wherever I am.”

FAWCO MEMBERS SKILLS ENHANCEMENT AWARD - 
sponsored in part by AWC Zurich $3000

My-Linh Kunst, she is a member of AWC Berlin

A natural achiever, she has carved out a 2nd career raising awareness of issues through her art. Inspired by the achievements of FAWCO’s ‘World Women’ she profiled some of the exceptional American women in the book Beyond Borders: Portraits of American Women From Around the World. FAWCO’s Ending Violence against Women and Children Committee again opened her eyes to yet another opportunity, a potential photo series on “The Face of Sex Trafficking.” She will begin a specialized course in photojournalism skills with the ultimate goal of completing the photo series as her graduation project.

SPECIAL CHALLENGES FUND
sponsored in part by Chilterns AWC $3000

Wiley Ann Becker, her mother is a member of the AWC Brussels

All of 8 yrs. old, this fun-loving and vivacious child has had to overcome hearing loss followed by two years of speech and language therapy. This has resulted in difficulties at her French-speaking school, where she has struggled and has had to repeat 1st grade. Presently working hard to keep from falling further behind, she receives speech and language therapy and has a tutor twice a week. Her award will support the continuation of an educational specialist, a licensed psychologist for intellectual testing, speech and language therapy, and tutoring.

DUAL CULTURAL AWARD in memory of Suzanne Erismann -
 sponsored in part by Donna Erismann and AWC Bern $3000

Curtis Meloy Goldsby, his mother is a member of AWC Cologne

Born in New York City, he has spent most of his life living in Germany, expressing his American roots through Jazz music, playing percussion in his school Big Band. He studies piano and drums privately and has started a small band playing Jazz and Classical music, incorporating elements of Hip-Hop and Funk. His aim is to attend an intensive summer Jazz workshop in Louisville, KY, where he can “hang out” and work hard with other young Jazz students from all over the USA.

Past Awards Recipients

2008 Recipients

$5000 ARTS AWARD: Claudia Jane Scroccaro, AWA Rome

$5000 SCIENCES AWARD: Patrick Smollen, AWC Rome

$5000 HUMANITIES AWARD: David Benjamin Lynch, AW Surrey

$3000 SPECIAL CHALLENGES AWARD: Jacqueline Elizabeth Lynch, AW Surrey

$3000 PROFESSOR J.V. RICE MEMORIAL ADVANCED STUDIES AWARD: Carolyn Coughlan, AW Surrey

$5000 MARY WALKER MAG HASSE ASIAN STUDIES AWARD: Alexander Lord Barton, AWC Antwerp

$5000 AWC BASEL FAWCO MEMBERS AWARD: Jennifer Pollard, AWC Bogota

2007 Recipients

$5000 Arts Award: Katarina Albertucci, AWA Rome

$5000 Sciences Award: Kelly Coleman, AWC London

$5000 Humanities Award: Christian Kaas, AAWE Paris

$3000 Steve Miller Memorial Communications Award: Allison Foster, AWC The Hague

$5000 AWC Basel Fawco Members Award: Yuzana Khin, AWC Thailand

$3000 Special Challenges Award: Steffanie Moss Werman, Auckland AWC

$3000 Dual Cultural Award: Charlotte Stuart Jacob, AWC Zurich

$3500 (academic) Richard R. Hallock Foundation / AAWE Summer Award: Christopher Roth
$3500 (non-academic) Richard R. Hallock Foundation / AAWE Summer Award: Benjamin Chaballier

2006 Recipients

$5000 Arts Award: Anna Livia Walker, AILO Florence

$5000 Sciences Award: Robert Lynch, AW Surrey

$5000 Humanities Award: Harry Doull, AWA of Rome

$5000 Dina Lang FAWCO Members Award: Carol Koepsell, AWC of the Taunus

$3000 Chilterns AWC Special Challenges Award: no applicant

$3000 Dual Cultural Award: Nelly Buchet Deak, AAWE Paris

$3000 FAWCO Alumnae USA Award: Carol Chiodo, FAUSA

2005 Recipients

$4000 AW of Surrey Arts Award: Benjamin Hecht, Chilterns AWC

$4000 Sciences Award in memory of Frieda Bacigalupo Natali: Nicole Voutsina, AWO Greece

$4000 Humanities Award in memory of Gertrude de Gallaix: Maria Claudia Prieto, AWC Zurich

$4000 FAWCO Members Award: Nancy Bell, AWC Bern

$3000 Chilterns AWC Special Challenges Award: Morgan Vander Weele, AWA Vienna

$2500 Dual Cultural Award: Elisa Jahn, AWC Dusseldorf

$2500 FAUSA Alumnae Award: Thea Fortune

$500 Angelica Award for Volunteerism: Margaret Mallon Pujol, AAWE Paris

2004 Recipients

$3000 Gertrude de Gallaix Achievement Award: Belkis Wille, AWC Zurich

$3000 Frieda Bacigalupo Natali Memorial Award: Daniel Brimbal, AAWE Paris

$3000 Foundation Achievement Award: Haruko Bunyak, AWC Thailand

$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Nancy Previn, AWC Dublin
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Theresa Rousseau, AAWE Paris

$3000 Special Challenges Award: Christos Kortesis, AWO Greece

$2500 Dual Cultural Award: Victoria Roth, AAWE Paris

$2000 FAUSA Alumnae USA Award: Elizabeth Hemminger

$500 Angelica Award for Volunteerism: Aliki Dimitoglou, AWO Greece

$3000 Mary Mag Hasse Award: Kristine Colombo, AWC Brussels

2003 Recipients

$3000 Gertrude de Gallaix Achievement Award: Michelle Adams, AWC Antwerp

$3000 Frieda Bacigalupo Natali Memorial Award: Benjamin Millete, Chilterns AWC

$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Jennifer Gordon, AAW Ireland
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Gladys Cagle Pieniazek, AWC Berlin

$3000 Foundation Graduate Award: Bernadette Simpson, AWA Rome

$2000 Dual Cultural Award: Kristen Kjolseth, AWC Oslo

$2000 FAUSA Alumnae USA Award: Diana Wallace

$3000 Mary Mag Hasse Achievement Award: Rachel House, AWA Aberdeen

2002 Recipients

$3000 Gertrude de Gallaix Achievement Award: Melanie Ramjoue, AAWE Paris

$3000 First Merit Award: Andrew Farley Tyler, AW Berkshire & Surrey

$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Regina Weber, AWC Cologne
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Michele Wilcox, AWC Stockholm

$3000 Foundation Achievement Award: Christoph Gibson, AWC Brussels

$2000 Special Challenges Award: Caroline Simpson, AW Surrey

$2000 Dual Cultural Award: Thomas Striker, AIWC Genoa

$2000 FAUSA Alumnae USA Award: Ashley Coker

$3000 Mary Mag Hasse Achievement Award: Sarah Dougherty, AWA Rome

2001 Recipients

$3000 Gertrude de Gallaix Achievement Award: Benjamin Hintze, AWC Hamburg

$4000 Frieda Bacigalupo Natali Memorial Award: Yvonne Higgot, AIWC Torino

$6000 First Merit Award: Tomonari Miyashita, AWC Thailand

$3000 Graduate Achievement Award: Mary Staub, AWC Basel

$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Corrine Lewis, AWC Brussels
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Dianne Henning, AAWE Paris
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: MaLinda Hill, AWC Cologne
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Charlene Fideler, AWC Luxembourg

$500 Carol Buswell Volunteer Award: Donna Sebti, AIWC Casablanca

$6000 Mary Mag Hasse Award: Michael Kujanek, AWC Taunus

2000 Recipients

$3000 Gertrude de Gallaix Achievement Award: Myles Van der Weele, AWA Vienna

$5000 First Merit Award: Fabio del Piero, AWA Rome

$3000 Second Merit Award: Elena Mantzaris, AWO Greece

$3000 Graduate Achievement Award: Claire Morisset, AWC Brussels

$3000 Graduate Award: Christopher Woelk, AW Berkshire & Surrey

$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Jennifer Metz, ANC Rotterdam
$2500 Ruth St. John Federation Award: Musttagh Farokhi Johnston, AWC Central Scotland

$2000 Dual Cultural Award: Erich Arrer, Austro-Am. Society of Salzburg

$500 Carol Buswell Volunteer Award: Anne Riggins Ponti, AWA Rome

$2000 FAWCO Alumnae Award: Kelly Coker

$5000 Mary Mag Hasse Achievement Award: Charles Moravic, AWC Korea

2009 FAWCO Foundation Education Awards Recipients

ARTS AWARD In Memory of Elaine Senigallia $5000

SCIENCES AWARD in memory of Frieda Bacigalupo Natali - sponsored in part by AIWC Genoa $5000

HUMANITIES AWARD in memory of Gertude de Gallaix - sponsored in part by AAWE Paris $5000

AWC Basel FAWCO MEMBERS AWARD FOR UNIVERSITY DEGREE STUDY PROGRAMS - sponsored by Shirley Kearney $5000

FAWCO MEMBERS SKILLS ENHANCEMENT AWARD - sponsored in part by AWC Zurich $3000

SPECIAL CHALLENGES FUNDsponsored in part by Chilterns AWC $3000

DUAL CULTURAL AWARD in memory of Suzanne Erismann - sponsored in part by Donna Erismann and AWC Bern $3000