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SEARCH FOR PAST SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Google can’t find everything. Over the past forty-five years, Scholarship Foundation of East Providence (formerly Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of East Providence) has administered scholarships to more than 3,000 residents of East Providence. Like many Rhode Islanders, a good number of those recipients have stayed in the area. Others have made their mark across the country.

            Past recipients include the writer and first woman director of an Oscar-award winning Disney animated film, Frozen, the co-host of WPRI-TV’s Rhode Show, a former mayor of the city and a former interim superintendent of East Providence schools. Teachers and staff at East Providence elementary, middle and high schools have benefited from our scholarships. Police officers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, accountants, artists and chefs who work in the city and the area have been assisted by Scholarship Foundation of East Providence.

            In celebration of their forty-fifth year of service to the community, members of SF of East Providence are seeking to locate as many past recipients as possible. As recipients marry and change their name or move out of state, it becomes difficult to maintain contact.

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            “Our goal is to locate as many recipients as possible and find out what they are doing now, “ stated Louise Paiva of SF of East Providence. Past recipients and parents of past recipients who received scholarships through Scholarship Foundation of East Providence since 1968 are asked to contact Louise Paiva with news about their current address and profession at 401-433-3463 or at gonewalkin@cox.net.

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