The 2016 YMCA Storer Camp Scholarship
Awarded to Two Third Graders
Special to The Truth
The 2016 Lesley Harper Sr. Memorial YMCA Storer Camp
Scholarship was awarded to two third graders at Ella P.
Steward Academy for Girls on March 23, 2016. Jayda Duncan
and Genesis Newsom will each receive a scholarship for one
week of summer camp with horseback riding lessons at YMCA
Storer Camps in Jackson, Michigan.
The annual scholarship was founded by Paul Thomas in 2004 in
memory of Lesley Harper Sr. Harper was a local general
contractor who employed, trained and mentored many young men
and women from the central city area of Toledo, many of them
went on to become very successful in business and
construction.
Thomas was one of those lucky individuals that Harper
trained and mentored. Thomas has been a member of the
Carpenters Union for 30 years and is currently a retired
senior representative from the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio
Regional Council of Carpenters. Thomas sits on the Board of
Directors for YMCA Storer Camps and is also a member of the
YMCA Storer Camps Scholarship Committee.
Thomas chose Ella P.
Stewart Academy for Girls because he attended Ella P.
Stewart before it became an all-girls school. He chose third
graders because he felt it is a great entry age for summer
camp at Storer and his first experience at Storer was as a
third grader.
The selection was made
based on academics, citizenship, attendance and an essay
contest. Jayda wrote that she wants to attend Storer because
of her hard work and how much she wants to have such an
experience in her life; Genesis wrote that she hopes the
week at Storer will enable her to meet new friends. |
