$23,000 awarded by Katina John Malta Scholarship Program for 2004-05 Academic Year

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America recently announced the recipients of scholarship awards for the 2004-05 academic year from the Katina John Malta Scholarship Program.  This year  a total of $23,000 in awards were given to the following students:

Christina Maria Lagos (Dunedin, FL)
Anthony N. Zorzos (Rockville, MD)
Christine Lipinski (New Hyde Park, NY)
J. Anthony Kosar (Lisle, IL)
Angeliki Maria Horiates (Pennsauken, NJ)
Dimitra Zampraila (Amherst, MA)
Demetri Arnaoutakis (Dunedin, FL)
Pericles Camberis Abbasi (Chicago, IL)
Donna Balaouras (Watertown, MA)
Eleni Gouvas (Oak Park, IL)
Jeffery L. Walker (Abilene, Kansas)
Nicholas P. Abud (Grand Blanc, MI)
Erin M. George (Denville, NJ)
Mary Lindsey Hopper (Middlesex, NJ)

These students were selected by the Scholarship Committee from the numerous applications received by the Archdiocese, and each received scholarships ranging from $1000 to $2000.  Four of the recipients were from other Orthodox jurisdictions, two from the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, and two from the American Carpatho-Russian Archdiocese.

The Katina John Malta Scholarship Fund is a new scholarship program established at the Archdiocese in 2002 by means of a generous gift from the estate of Katina John Malta.  The donation and the formation of the scholarship program has been done in recognition of the love Katina had for the Church and in honor of the desire she had to help others, especially children and youth.  The program awards at least two scholarships of $2000 each academic year.  The program is open to all Orthodox students of the jurisdictions of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA).

Application forms are available upon request from the Office of the Chancellor, Scholarship Office, 10 East 79th Street, New York, NY  10021.  The application deadline for 2005 will be April 15.  Applications are also available on-line at:

http://www.goarch.org/en/archdiocese/administration/chancellor/maltascholarship.pdf