Masonicare at Ashlar Village Residents’ Scholarship Fund Helps 18 Young People Further Their Educations

Wallingford, CT, June 13, 2018…The fourteenth annual Masonicare at Ashlar Village Residents' Scholarship Fund presentation was held recently in the Hartog Activity Center at Masonicare at Ashlar Village, Masonicare's Life Plan Community on Cheshire Road in Wallingford.

Eighteen young men and women, who are either employees of Masonicare at Ashlar Village or the children of employees, were honored during the presentation.  A total amount of $23,800 in scholarship funds was raised this year and distributed at the special awards ceremony.  Hilde Sager, Masonicare's VP of Residential Services, offered welcoming remarks and scholarship recipients were introduced by David Gessert, Chairman of the Residential Services Board.  

The young men and women receiving scholarships this year are Nasim Aouji, Mason Armstrong, Alvee Azmaeen, Mark Baxter, Rebecca Day-Reynolds,  Catherine Fiske, Carley Fitzgerald, Emily Hatch, Danielle McIntyre, Kaitlyn McIntyre, Mary Naccarato, Emma Randolph, Zachary Rezendes, Kevin Rodriguez, Hailee Schmidt, Elizabeth Stefanski, Christina Ward and Daniel Zakrzewski.

Masonicare at Ashlar Village residents established the Scholarship Fund in 2004 to provide educational scholarships for young people who either work at Ashlar Village or are children of employees.   The funds are raised in a variety of ways, but mainly through the sale of unique, handmade craft and clothing items in the Ashlar Village Specialty shop.  The items are made by residents of Ashlar Village, and the Specialty Shop is manned and stocked solely by resident volunteers.