IMPACT: Count Basie Center Arts Impact College Scholarship Winners - Count Basie Center for the Arts
IMPACT: Count Basie Center Arts Impact College Scholarship Winners
(RED BANK – MAY 29) This year’s winners of the annual Count Basie Center Arts Impact scholarship program gathered onsite in Red Bank this week, to both receive their scholarship certificates and also meet some of the generous donors behind the Arts Impact college scholarship program.
Twelve Basie Center Arts Impact college scholarships – first announced at last week’s annual Basie Awards – were awarded this year:
Amy Giinther Fredericks Arts Impact Scholarship – Faith Carhuff (Aberdeen) Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship – Gifted by the 2022 Basie Golf Outing – Sam Salerno (Holmdel) Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship – Gifted by the 2023 Basie Golf Outing – Niome Morales (Manalapan) Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship – Gifted by Robin & John Klein – RJ Vandenbrouck (West Long Branch) Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship – Gifted by Michael Parent – Stephen Hanhan (Holmdel) Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship – Gifted by Joe & Nicole Wajda – Esther Fosu(Matawan) Monmouth County Commissioners Basie Scholarship for Continuing Education – Bernard Liang (Morganville) Moser Taboada Arts Impact Scholarship – Hanyi Deng (Morganville) Robert C. Garrett Hackensack Meridian Health Arts Impact Scholarship – Aiden Napoleon (Englewood)
Turner Arts Impact Scholarship – Olivia Maes (Manasquan) Yvonne Lamb Scudiery Arts Impact Scholarship – Sofia Cammarano (Matawan) Yvonne Lamb Scudiery Arts Impact Scholarship – Nicole DiBlasi (Holmdel)
Count Basie Center Education Committee Co-Chair Maria Maher welcomed students, their families and Arts Impact scholarship alumni to this year’s reception
Samantha Giustiniani, Basie Center Vice President of Education and Outreach, welcomes reception attendees
Monmouth County Board of County Commissioner members Erik Anderson (left) and Director Tom Arnone give remarks to reception attendees
Monmouth county Actress Catherine Ashmore Bradley (Nickelodeon’s Loud House, Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) addresses reception attendees
Aiden Napoleon, Englewood, poses with family members upon receipt of the Robert C. Garrett Arts Impact Scholarship, awarded to a student with a parent working as part of the Hackensack Meridian Health organization
Steven Hanhan (left), Holmdel, received an Arts Impact Scholarship gifted by Count Basie Center Board Trustee Michael Parent, right
RJ Vandenbrouck, left,of West Long Branch, pictured with Count Basie Center Board Trustee Robin Klein. Robin and her husband, John, are part of the generous donors who make the Count Basie Center Arts Impact college scholarship program possible
Arts Impact Scholarship recipient Niome Morales of Manalapan, left, with Count Basie Center President and CEO Adam Philipson
Faith Carhuff, of Aberdeen, received the Amy Amy Giinther Fredericks Arts Impact college scholarship
Hanyi Deng, of Morganville, received the Moser Toboada Arts Impact college scholarship
Olivia Maes, of Manasquan, pictured with Count Basie Center President and CEO Adam Philipson. Maes received an Arts Impact college scholarship gifted by Basie Center board member Fran Turner and her husband, Paul
Nicole DiBlasi of Holmdel presents her certificate as recipient of one of two scholarships gifted by longtime Count Basie Center Vice President of Education Yvonne Lamb Scudiery
Sofia Cammarano, center, of Matawan, received the Yvonne Lamb Scudiery Arts Impact college scholarship
Sam Salerno of Holmdel, holds their Arts Impact Scholarship certificate surrounded by family members
This year’s crop of Count Basie Center Arts Impact Scholarship recipients
Winners of the 2024 Count Basie Center Arts Impact college scholarships pose with previous recipients
