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A Record $75,400 in Scholarships & Grants awarded
The College Men’s Club of Westfield
The College Men’s Club of Westfield (CMC) has awarded a record $75,400 in four-year scholarships and one-time standardized test preparation grants to five young men from Westfield High School to help them pursue their college education. David Germond, CMC President, explained that “the recipients were selected based on a rigorous assessment of their academic achievement, community involvement, career direction, and financial need.”
Ryan Clark, CMC Scholarship Chair, noted that “this was once again an extremely competitive year for the CMC scholarship program with a large group of highly qualified applicants.” The three scholarship awardees from the WHS class of 2024 include:
Adam Goddard was awarded a four-year, $24,000 College Men’s Club of Westfield Scholarship. Adam plans to study Film Production at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He hopes to pursue a career in film and TV production.
Benedict Nematadzira was awarded a four-year, $24,000 College Men’s Club of Westfield Scholarship. Benedict will attend Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He plans to major in Computer Science, laying the foundation for a career in data analytics for public health.
Ethan Witten was awarded a four-year, $24,000 College Men’s Club of Westfield Scholarship. Ethan will attend Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts this Fall. He plans to study Entrepreneurship, with a long-term goal of founding his own business.
In addition to the four-year scholarships, earlier this Spring the CMC awarded two WHS juniors one-time grants each valued at $1,700 to fund one-on-one standardized test preparation courses conducted by CollegeWise.
The College Men’s Club of Westfield was founded in 1922 and over the past century has helped hundreds of Westfield young men by providing college tuition assistance and funding standardized test preparatory courses. Since its founding, the CMC has raised and distributed over $1.4 million in higher education assistance to young men of the Westfield community to attend over 130 institutions of higher learning.
Scholarship applications are available online at the CMC website and through the WHS guidance department in February of each year. Applications are evaluated by a committee of CMC Trustees each Spring. Funds for scholarships are generated through fund raising events, donations, membership dues, endowment investment income, and legacy bequests.
To learn more about the College Men’s Club of Westfield, please visit cmcwestfield.org.
