Scholar Success Stories
Scholars becoming leaders creates impact forever. Hundreds of students have received scholarships from the Community Foundation, and have gone on to have successful careers.
Read about several of our successful scholar’s below, and click HERE to enjoy more stories.
Are you one of our successful scholars? We’d love to know how your scholarship helped gain you success. Let us know where you are and what you are doing currently by completing the Scholarship Alumni Form.
Kristina Brakebill Houck
“Patie
nts give you patience,” according to Kristina Brakebill Houck. “I am blown away every day with the courage and perseverance that my patients show towards their difficult health situations.” Kristy, as she’s called by her family and friends, is a registered nurse working full time at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. Just two years into her career after graduating from Messiah College in 2009, Kristy works on the trauma acute care floor, or the “drama” floor, as she and the trauma staff lovingly call it.
PW Shaffer
“Wh
atever you put your mind to, you can accomplish.” These are the words that P.W. Shaffer lives by and teaches his children, because he knows from personal experience these words are true.P.W., a 1988 graduate of Brunswick High School, received the Frederick Community College Student Scholarship. His father’s unexpected death right after his high school graduation changed his family’s life dramatically, and P.W. suddenly found himself the man of the family, helping his mother navigate the sale of his father’s dental practice, among other things. “I had to grow up very quickly,” said P.W. “I learned a lot about business, on the fly.”
Darren Remsburg
Darre
n Remsburg is not your typical veterinarian. A 1996 Brunswick High School graduate and a 1999 Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) graduate, Darren earned his degree in veterinary medicine from Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. In the short eight years since then, Darren’s professional experience includes private practice, research, teaching, veterinary product support in the corporate world, and entrepreneur. He’s also found time to marry and start a family that now includes three beautiful daughters. Not surprisingly, his wife, Carrie, is also a veterinarian.
Nathan Farlow
Nathan Farlow did not let much grass grow under his feet during his time as a student at University of Maryland, College Park. Nor has he let any grass grow since he graduated magna cum laude in the spring of 2010 and was hired by ExxonMobil and relocated to Houston, TX. Nathan is a Cost Engineer at the largest petroleum and petrochemical complex in the United States, known as the ExxonMobil Baytown Area.
Heather Dapsauski
Heather Dapsauski is not just a math teacher. Heather is a math teacher who is successful because she strives, on a daily basis, to make a personal connection with every one of her students. “If I make the effort to form a relationship with my students, then they want to learn.”
Joe Baker
I
t just gets in your blood. Growing up around a restaurant will either instill a passion for the field, or enable one to find out that it’s not for them. For Joe Baker, who during his youth spent a lot of time at his family’s restaurant, La Paz, the world of hospitality is definitely a passion.
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