COLLEEN & ERIN MARLATT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
THE 2014-2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF DONORS
THE SCHOLAR 2015
BLESS OUR BENEFACTORS As we look back on the past fourteen years, we hope you are inspired by how much has been accomplished. Because of the continued, faithful support of our donors, the Colleen and Erin Scholarship Fund has been able to assist many deserving families in their pursuit of an education in Baltimore Archdiocesan High Schools and at the University of Maryland in College Park. Thank you for helping many families with your generosity and recognizing the ministry of teachers who make sacrifices by responding to a higher calling to teach in parochial schools.
Principal of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Victor Pellechia, Timothy Weir, and his mom Patricia, a teacher at OLPH. Timothy is a freshman at Calvert Hall.
CHOOSING OUR SCHOLARS: THE SELECTION PROCESS So, how exactly are the Marlatt
committee follow. We surveyed
each and every student as if they
scholars chosen each year? There
members of the committee and
had known the students for years.
is a dedicated group of nine
this is what they said: Fr. Rich
The process was thoughtful and
people who read and score each
Bozelli, a former and founding
took a great deal of time and the
part of the application. Of course
selection
member
members had internalized every
it is appropriate that the members
said, “ While the scoring provides
word and looked for guidance
remain anonymous, but we can
a business world perspective and
from above.”
say that there are several retired
quantified hard data, the 2nd part
teachers from private and public
of the process, personal dialoging
Others said: “The process is
schools, an engineer, a young
about the top five choices of each
‘spirit driven’,” and “Each year
stay-at-home mom, who was a
member, allows the candidates
I look forward to reading the
teacher, a fitness instructor, and
to come alive.”
scholarship applications. They fill
committee
me with such inspiration and joy
the Director of Communication for a U.S. Congressman. The
The newest member of the
that I can’t help feeling that I’m a
Members
committee
committee said: “I was awestruck
better person for getting to know
would agree that it is often
by the caliber of the students who
these individuals, the students
through prayer and the power of
applied...they were all eminently
and the parents.” “Each one of
the Holy Spirit, but there really
qualified. I was also amazed
the candidates gives us hope for
is a very earthly and formal
at how much information the
the future of the Catholic Church
process that the members of the
Committee members knew about
and our world.”
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