Voorhees: Scholarships and Summer Plans

The Scholarship Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of The Episcopal Church has awarded scholarships to six Voorhees College students and a Voorhees graduate for the 2019-2020 academic year. Each student will received a total of $4,533.00. According to the Rev. James Yarsiah, Chaplain at Voorhees, all the recipients are Episcopalians and serve as acolytes at St. Philip’s Chapel during the weekly Tuesday all-school worship services and Sunday Eucharist. 

Left to right: Denise Freeman, Temah Yarsiah, Dawn Freeman, the Rev. James Yarsiah, Davidetta Yarsiah, Fiona Freeman, and Nathan Freeman at the Voorhees 2019 Academic Honors Convocation. (Not shown is scholarship recipient Franklin Ukoha.)

Bishop Skip Adams and Fr. Yarsiah gave recommendations and support for the scholars in the application process. 

Voorhees students who received scholarships are Denise Freeman, Temah Yarsiah, Dawn Freeman, Fiona Freeman, Nathan Freeman and Franklin Ukoha. Davidetta Yarsiah, a 2019 Voorhees graduate, also received a scholarship to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree at Claflin University in Orangeburg beginning this year.

Seven Voorhees students also were offered summer jobs at Kanuga, the Episcopal camp and conference center in Hendersonville, NC. Since 2013, Voorhees has had two or three students working at Kanuga each summer, but this year is the largest group yet from Voorhees, Fr. Yarsiah said.