2023 Scholarship Program
WELCOME!
LEAP FORWARD, INC. 2023 SCHOLARSHIP CEREMONY
July 23, 2023
Exceeding Expectations Today, Tomorrow, and Always!!
PROGRAM
MUSICALPRE-SHOWSELECTIONS...........................……...………… Brother GeretGray
MASTER OF CEREMONY.……............................……...………… Brother Jahvon Gordon
OPENING PRAYER.............…... Rev. Dr. Dana Jones, Mt. Olive United Methodist Church
REMARKS.……........……….. Rhonda Thomas,LEAP Forward, Inc. Presidentand Founder
MUSICALSELECTIONS…..……………...........…… Bowie State University Gospel Choir
INTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER...... Trayonna Hutchins, LEAP Forward, Inc. VP
MESSAGE.........….… Dr.Annica Wayman,UMBC Associate Deanfor Shady Grove Affairs
MUSICALSELECTIONS............................................... Bowie State University Gospel Choir
PRESENTATION OF 2023 SCHOLARS
STUDENTREFLECTIONS....................................................... 2023Scholarship Recipients
CLOSINGREMARKS................................….. KimThomas, Scholarship Reception Chair
NEGRO NATIONALANTHEM……....……………….......................................Attendees
CLOSINGPRAYER.................... Rev. Dr. DanaJones,Mt. Olive United Methodist Church
Violet Parker MemorialScholarship
SophiaAchufusi-Amuze
Major:CriminalJustice Towson University
Earl Thorne MemorialScholarship
EssaheBarber
Major:Marketing
Hampton University
Iris AnneHarris MemorialScholarship
Jada Brooks
Major:Secondary Education Bowie StateUniversity
Glenda LeeBell MemorialScholarship
Anjelynn Chase
Major:Biology
Goucher College
MasterMind ScholarshipFund
Sydnie Collins
Major:PoliticalScience, Communications, & Public Relations
Howard University
Vivian Lemort Rogers MemorialScholarship
Christopher Davis
Major:Broadcasting Journalism/Economics
Syracuse University
Grace Parker MemorialScholarship
Sincear Frederick
Major:SportsMedicine
Stevenson University
2023 RECIPIENTS
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
Jalon Bain
Major:Business College of Southern Maryland
Iris AnneHarris MemorialScholarship
Rebekah Bobo
Major:Music Morgan StateUniversity
Grace Parker MemorialScholarship
Egypt Butler
Major:Information Science University of Maryland College Park
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
MirakohlCoates
Major:Broadcasting Journalism, Film & Media Howard University
Grace Paker MemorialScholarship
Sydney Contee
Major:Mechanical Engineering
Penn State
MacArthurJones MemorialScholarship
Micah Estep
Major:American Sign Language
Bloomsburg University
WilsonEnnis Sr. MemorialScholarship
TaniaFrederick-Allen
Major:Human Ecology University of Maryland
Eastern Shore
WilsonEnnis Sr. MemorialScholarship
TiaraBaker
Major:Nursing
North CarolinaCentral University
Bill&BlancheFinch MemorialScholarship
J'NiyaBrooks
Major:Nursing
Stevenson University
Ruth Reid MemorialScholarship
AngeliaCarson
Major:Secondary Education/ Music College of Southern Maryland
ClydeJonesJr. & CarrieBertha Jones MemorialScholarship
Alissa Collins
Major:Mechanical Engineering
Liberty University
VictoriaLodge#71 Scholarship
Sydney Cooksey
Major:Marketing
Morgan StateUniversity
RaymondHarris MemorialScholarship
Jeanelle Ford
Major:Business Administration/Accounting
Bowie StateUniversity
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
AnthonyGrady
Major:Engineering
North CarolinaA&T StateUniversity
MarilynPreston Killingham MemorialScholarship
Sanaa Gray
Major:Business Administration/ Pre-Law
North CarolinaCentralUniversity
CliftonMorsell& Randolph Adams MemorialScholarship
Morgan Hicks
Major:BiomedicalEngineering Spelman College
Dorothy MaeSmith MemorialScholarship
LalyaHurley
Major:Biology – Pre-Med
TempleUniversity
NanniePearlCade MemorialScholarship
Kamryn Jenkins
Major:Information Technology
North CarolinaCentral University
RaymondHarris MemorialScholarship
DiamondLewis
Major:Biology – Pre-Med
Mount St. Mary'sUniversity
George&Geneva Green Harrod MemorialScholarship
Colby Mackall
Major:Studio Art University of Maryland College Park
LawrenceMyers MemorialScholarship
Aniyah Norman
Major:Architecture
Howard University
2023 RECIPIENTS
Evelyn Irvine MemorialScholarship
KendylL. Hawkins
Major:Elementary Education/ PoliticalScience
Hampton University
Grace Parker MemorialScholarship
EricaHill
Major:MechanicalEngineering University of Pittsburgh
Hamilton&AliceParran MemorialScholarship
Dymon Hines
Major:Psychology
Mount St. Mary'sUniversity
CliftonMorsell & RandolphAdams MemorialScholarship
MakaylaLancaster
Major:Criminology
Howard University
Gladys Henson MemorialScholarship
Jalen Mack
Major:Biology
Morgan StateUniversity
CliftonMorsell& Randolph Adams MemorialScholarship
Lauren McNair
Major:Health Management/ Pre-Med
Howard University
GloriaMae Gross MemorialScholarship
Ruvimbo Nzuwah
Major:Health Sciences
Spelman College
CliftonMorsell& Randolph Adams MemorialScholarship
Zarah Hawkins
Major:Biology
Morgan StateUniversity
RussellCostley MemorialScholarship
JasmineHolland
Major:Psychology/Nursing
University of Maryland BaltimoreCounty
MasterMind ScholarshipFund
ToriJackson
Major:Engineering
Howard University
WilsonEnnis Sr. MemorialScholarship
Destiny Lewis
Major:Chemistry – Pre-Med
Bowie StateUniversity
George&Geneva Green Harrod MemorialScholarship
NicholasMack
Major:Computer Science
University of Maryland BaltimoreCounty
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
Tracey Montilus
Major:CriminalJustice Towson University
George&Geneva Green Harrod MemorialScholarship
Victor Oliver Jr.
Major:Computer Science
Bowie StateUniversity
BetramPernellBell MemorialScholarship
Robert Pearson III
Major:Computer Science
Morgan StateUniversity
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
Mason Prioleau
Major:Business Administration
MorehouseUniversity
Grace Parker MemorialScholarship
DarnellScott
Major:Biology
Bowie StateUniversity
Violet Parker MemorialScholarship
KeyonaTharpe
Major:Business Management
North CarolinaCentral University
WallaceLeeper ScholarshipFund
Nikko White
Major:Theater Arts/Acting
Morgan StateUniversity
2023 RECIPIENTS
Thomas Family Scholarship
Ebun Popoola
Major:SportsMedicine/ Human Performance
Howard University
GloriaMae Gross MemorialScholarship
DatayaResenois
Major:Health Sciences
Howard University
Violet Parker MemorialScholarship
AyaShaw
Major:Business Management
MorehouseUniversity
MichaelJ.Moore MemorialScholarship
Taliyah Washington
Major:Business Administration
Morgan StateUniversity
ElizabethSimms MemorialScholarship
Ashley Williams
Major:Fashion Business Management
University of Maryland
Eastern Shore
Thank you to the families, organizations, and donors that helped make this possible!
A special thanks to our scholarship reception committee: Kim Thomas, Darlene Harrod, Trayonna Hutchins, Dorien Minor, Farnetta Baker, and Joseph Berry
GloriaMae Gross MemorialScholarship
WaynePowell
Major:Arts& Science College of Southern Maryland
George&Geneva Green Harrod MemorialScholarship
Tory Ridgeway
Major:AerospaceEngineering
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Gail E. Patterson ScholarshipFund
Xhayla Strickland
Major:Psychology
Mount HolyokeCollege
Grace Parker MemorialScholarship
Braxton Wheeler
Major:Animation
MarylandInstitute College of Art
WallaceLeeper MemorialScholarship
Kelly Yestramski
Major:Communications College of Southern Maryland
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson, 1871 – 1938
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaving ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast’ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleams of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand,
True to our God, True to our native land.
