This post originally published in the June 2012 edition of the Cedar Park Neighbors Newsletter. This year’s annual scholarship fundraiser on Sunday, March 25 at Dock Street Brewery was once again a rousing success! With nearly 100 people in attendance and thousands of dollars raised, CPN would like to offer a special thanks to Rosemarie and her team atDock Street, as well as all of the businesses and neighbors that continue to support this annual event through ticket sales and/or auction donations year after year. Please check out our full list of supporters!
Supporting CPN Scholarship Committee events, like our annualDock Streetfundraiser above, is critical to raising scholarship funds for students like Hahn Nguyen, a freshman atTempleUniversity, and one of our current CPN scholarship recipients. Below, Hahn reflects on what the CPN scholarship has meant to her this first year:
“The famous Sir Isaac Newton once said, ‘If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.’ This saying perfectly describes how grateful I feel towards the assistance and help I’ve received from Cedar Park Neighbors and their generous scholarship. This year, I began to embark on my college journey. Before I even started, I was very stressed about how to pay for college, seeing as paying for high school was already difficult. I made my choice to go to Temple in part because of its cheaper tuition compared to many other colleges and my decision was finalized when I got accepted into their new Bachelor in Science Nursing program. Nursing, specifically neonatal nursing, has been my passion and dream job. However, not only did I have to stress about paying for tuition and books, I was also required to buy nursing/medical supplies and uniforms for the program. I felt overwhelmed by the prices of the medical supplies, most of them being over a hundred dollars and more. But with the help of my Cedar Park Neighbors scholarship, I was able to pay for my Nursing books and some of the supplies such as the stethoscope, scrubs, and sphygmomanometer. I was always worried that my financial issues would prevent me from living my dream fully, but with this scholarship I have been able to begin my first steps into making my dream become reality.
I have now finished my first year of college and survived the first year of Temple University’s nursing program. Although it has been a very difficult, stressful, and time consuming experience, I have enjoyed every minute of it. Through the first year of the program, I have learned to take patient’s blood pressure and interacted with senior citizens and children at various field work placements in the community. My passion for nursing has been further ignited and I can’t wait to start my clinicals next semester. I would like to once again thank everyone involved in the Cedar Park Neighbors scholarship committee for helping me be able to live these wonderful experiences I’ve had this past year at Temple University.”
Sincerely,
Hahn Nguyen
If you have not already, it is not too late to support scholarships for Hahn and others in 2012-2013! You can make a donation through the CPN website or by sending a check to CPN marked “Scholarship”.
More information about the Scholarship Program can be found at www.cedarparkneighbors.org.
Questions? Please call CPN at 267-531-4147 or email scholarships@cedarparkneighbors.org.
Many thanks to our Scholarship Fundraiser Business Supporters…
Aksum
AnnenbergCenterfor the Performing Arts
Atiya Ola's Spirit First Foods
Atlantic Medical Specialty
Baltimore AvePet Shoppe
BartramGardens
Bed Bath & Beyond
Boost Market
DBA Little Home Repairs
DesiVillage
Dock Street Brewery
East SmithfieldHealthcare
Eastern State Penitentiary
Elena's Showcase Lounge
Firehouse Bicycles
Gold Standard
Green Line Café
Harvard Children's Academy
House of Our Own Books
Lee's Deli
Liz Campion
LongwoodGardens
Morris Arboretum of theUniversityofPennsylvania
NationalConstitutionCenter
New Deal Lumber and Millwork Company
Nigerian African Grocery
PhiladelphiaFederal Credit Union
PhiladelphiaMuseumof Art
PhiladelphiaSuzukiPianoAcademy
Studio 34
Sunray Drugs
Talking Headz
Tom Davis Pharmacy
Tool Library ofPhiladelphia
VientianeCafé
VietnamCafé
Vix Emporium
Wake Up Yoga
Wayne's Garage
West Philadelphia Locksmith Company
WoodlandBuildingSupply
and to these individual donors!!
Diane Bezella
Darryl Bundridge
Dr. Gerard Davis
Kitakiya Dennis
James Donley
Bruce Dorpalen
Agnes Dumas
Johanna Fine
Claudia Hamilton
Emily Hirshorn
Hillary Kane
George Karpyn
Richard Keiser
Peggy and Todd Kovich
Judyann McCarthy
Dr. Alice Moyer
Amy Myers
Representative James Roebuck
Lola Rooney
Beverly Rouse
Jen Smith
Maureen Tate and Gerald McHugh
Senator Anthony Williams
Nancy Wygant
Mary Yee