CANANDAIGUA – The Thompson Health Guild recently awarded scholarships to five 2020 high school graduates.
Each scholarship, worth $2,000, goes to a recipient registered in a health-related field who must successfully complete their first college semester with the intent to study the second semester in a health-related field.
The recipients were as follows:
- Katey Lincoln of Naples Central School is the recipient of the Gerry North Memorial Scholarship. She is pursuing a master’s degree in the physician assistant program at Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y.
- Paige O’Brien of Geneva High School is the recipient of the Theresa Tremblay Memorial Scholarship. She is already a certified nursing assistant and chose the University of Albany, where she is on a pre-med track.
- Kimberly Serio of Livonia High School is the recipient of the Phyllis Ehman Memorial Scholarship. She is attending Utica College, where she enrolled in an accelerated, six-year undergraduate-to-doctoral degree program in physical therapy.
- Jacob “JD” Slocum of Honeoye High School is the recipient of the Gail D. O’Brien Memorial Scholarship and is pursuing a bachelor’s in nursing at SUNY Buffalo this fall, with the ultimate goal of obtaining a doctorate in nursing and becoming a certified nurse anesthetist.
- Emma Smithers of Waterloo High School is the recipient of the Deborah L. Kimble Memorial Scholarship. She is pursuing both an associate’s and a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Alfred State College in Alfred, N.Y.
The Thompson Health Guild is the auxiliary of UR Medicine Thompson Health, fundraising for the nonprofit organization in order to support capital campaigns, purchase medical equipment and offer programs for hospital patients, nursing home residents, staff members and community members. The scholarships are among the guild’s annual traditions. This year, the Guild added the Gail D. O’Brien Memorial Scholarship, honoring a guild board member who passed away in 2019.
For more information about the guild, visit www.ThompsonHealth.com/Guild.