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Scholarship Recipients

Barber Family Foundation is proud to announce its 2023 Scholarship Recipients.

It has been an honor to contribute to the growth and dreams of these young adults in their pursuit of a college education. We would like to thank each and everyone of them for allowing us to be a part of their story, and we wish them the greatest success in all their endeavors.

2023 Scholarship Recipients

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Amelie G.

Charlottesville, VA

I would once again like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for their generosity and for aiding my education journey. Throughout my time at UVA thus far, I have recognized my goals of obtaining a foreign language minor and entering pharmacy school after my undergraduate studies. I was unsure as to what I wanted to do two years ago as a high school graduate and even last year as a rising 2nd year, but the BF Foundation has been there to support me the entire way. I am eternally grateful to have been able to pursue my goals with their help for the past three years!

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Andrew W.

Norman OK

I am sincerely grateful and humbled to be named a recipient of the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship. It is an honor to be recognized by a prestigious organization that is passionate about giving back, military families, and continued education. This generous scholarship will alleviate some of the financial burden associated with the cost of obtaining my advanced degree. As I move forward in my studies and work toward obtaining a degree in broadcast journalism, I will work extra hard to honor and thank the Barber Family Foundation for investing in my future and the future of so many other military children.

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Carly V.

Tempe, AZ

Dear Barber Family Foundation,
Thank you so much once again for this incredible opportunity! I am grateful that I have been able to use this scholarship in order to continue to pursue a BS in Nursing, as well as to serve my community in both Undergraduate Student Government as a Senator and in the Army ROTC program at ASU. I am excited to see how else I can continue to give back to my community and this scholarship foundation, as they have assisted me with my college finances!

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Hayden E.

Elgin High School – Elgin, Oklahoma

I would like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for the scholarship and for investing in my future. The scholarship will allow me to pursue my goal of studying social work at the University of Oklahoma. I plan to become a licensed clinical social worker and hope to one day work with veterans. I am grateful for the generosity of the Barber Family Foundation. When I achieve my goals and am in a position where I can financially assist others, I am committed to paying it forward and helping future students.

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Jenna P.

San Diego, CA

I am extremely grateful to be a recipient of a Barber Family Foundation Scholarship and would like to thank everyone at the foundation for supporting me as I turn my dreams of becoming a nurse into a reality. I am entering my Junior year at San Diego State University-School of Nursing. I’m eager to continue my education and learn about all aspects of health care. Receiving this scholarship allows me to afford lab supplies, uniforms, textbooks, and other materials to help me be successful in Nursing School. It is truly an honor, and thank you again.

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Kathryn K.

Northwestern High School – Maple, WI

My name is Kathryn Kyle from Northwestern High School in Maple, Wisconsin. I am attending the College of Saint Scholastica in the fall to major in Nursing with a minor in Gerontology. I will also be a part of the honors program and the golf team. I would like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for their help in furthering my education. My main goal in life is to help as many people as possible and this scholarship will help me achieve my goal. This scholarship inspires me more as I work toward the future and a lifetime spent in service.

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Lillian T.

Villanova, PA

I am honored to accept the 2023 Barber Family Foundation scholarship. Thanks to the foundation’s incredible generosity, I will be able to continue my education as a junior at Villanova University, where I am currently majoring in both Political Science and Humanities. I greatly appreciate this opportunity to continue my education.

2023 Scholarship Recipient

Sydnie C.

St. Mary’s Ryken High School – Leonardtown, MD

I am honored to be selected for the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship! Education is our birthright, and I understand that I cannot sustain a higher education without community support and a foundation like BFF. As a high school scholar, I seized the opportunity of building partnerships with my advisors, teachers, peers, mentors, and community leaders, and I will continue to do so this fall at Howard University! Thank you, BFF, for your investment in helping me meet my educational goals as I prepare to study Strategic Communications and use those skills to uplift and influence my community!

2022 Scholarship Recipients

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Amelie G.

Charlottesville, VA

I would once again like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for helping me get another step closer to reaching my academic goals. I am endlessly grateful and honored for the opportunity. I know that with the generosity of the BFF foundation, I can focus on my studies and pursue my goal of entering med school.

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Laura H.

Harrisonburg, VA

I would like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for helping me realize my goal to become an elementary school teacher. This scholarship will allow me to finish my education and move on to teach the leaders of tomorrows. I am so very grateful to the Barber Family Foundation for their contribution to my studies over the past three years!

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Kyle L.

Wayne Canterbury High School – Fort Wayne, Indiana

I am a graduating senior at Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana; I am planning to attend Purdue University Fort Wayne in the fall as a freshman, and have chosen biology as my prospective major and may also minor in music, history, or a language. I hope to pursue a career in the medical field, and my desire to do so has been strengthened by the death of my father on account of health complications. I hope to use my experience to help others in the future by caring for the health of patients to try to prevent similar tragedies from occurring. This generous scholarship from the Barber Family Foundation will help make my pursuit of a meaningful healthcare career a possibility by reducing my college expenses, which I would like to thank them for. The career path I plan on working towards is quite costly between college and professional school, and the opportunity to receive the education I would need would not be a secure reality without the assistance of outside scholarships such as the one I received from the Barber Family Foundation. Attending college will enable me to continue to expand my knowledge, explore my interests, and grow as a person, and receiving financial assistance to cover the costs associated with it is truly a gift for which I am extremely grateful.

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Skyelar M.

Berkeley, CA

My name is Skyelar Montgomery and I am from Springfield, Virginia. Currently, I am a Junior at the University of California, Berkeley where I am a student in the College of Letters and Sciences. I am an intended double major in Legal Studies and Political Economy, with the hopes of minoring in Race and the Law. I want to thank the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship for giving me the opportunity to receive this scholarship because it will be of great assistance to my educational future. It also means a lot to my family, as they are working to put my twin sister and I through college by continuing to find ways to ease any financial stress. I am very excited for these next three years of undergrad, and I am even more happy knowing that the Barber Family Foundation is one of the reasons as to why I can continue my educational journey. The work you all do for other students like me is amazing, and I know that it improves the lives of many students. Thank you for all you do!

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Jenna P.

San Diego, CA

I am extremely grateful for the Barber Family Foundation and incredibly honored to be a recipient of the 2022 scholarship. I will be attending San Diego State University as a Sophomore studying Nursing this fall. Thank you so much!

2022 Scholarship Recipient

Carly V.

Tempe, AZ

I am extremely grateful for the Barber Family Foundation for assisting in my college finances, as I have six younger siblings who will also be going to college every other year! This scholarship enables me to attend Arizona State University where I have been directly admitted to their School of Nursing and I can’t wait to use my degree to serve my community and our country as I continue my path to serve as an Army nurse in the Army ROTC program at ASU.

2021 Scholarship Recipients

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Amelie G.

West Springfield High School

I will be attending the University of Virginia as a freshman to study chemistry. I am incredibly honored to be a recipient of the 2021 Barber Family Foundation scholarship. This year, I will be attending the University of Virginia as a freshman to study chemistry and thanks to the Barber Family Foundation.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Carly V.

Princess Anne High School

I am extremely grateful for the Barber Family Foundation for assisting in my college finances, as I have six younger siblings who will also be going to college every other year! This scholarship enables me to attend Arizona State University where I have been directly admitted to their School of Nursing.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Edward E.

West Springfield High School

I will be attending the College of William and Mary in the fall as an international relations major. Thank you for providing me this amazing opportunity to further my education.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Elizabeth P.

University of Mary Washington

Thank you to the Barber Family Foundation for assisting me in achieving a college education. Your support is greatly valued and appreciated. This scholarship acts as an encouragement for me to continue moving forward.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Jenna P.

James W. Robinson Secondary School

I will be attending San Diego State University studying nursing this fall as a Freshman. I am sincerely honored to be selected as the recipient of the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship. The Barber Family Foundation is making dreams of college education for children of service members like me possible, and for that I am so grateful.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Lindsey G.

West Springfield High School

I want to thank everyone involved with the Barber Family Foundation, as I am so honored to be receiving it. I feel very fortunate that I have the opportunity to receive assistance in my journey to college.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Sophia T.

Lake Braddock High School

The Barber Family Foundation has given me the opportunity to continue doing what I love — learning and using what I learn to help others! The Barber Family Foundation’s generous scholarship will help me get one step closer to achieving my dream of becoming a medical doctor and for that, I am immensely grateful.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Lillian Carr
Hampton University

Lillian C.

Clarksburg High School • Clarksburg, MD

Thank you so much to the Barber Family Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I truly appreciate your support in helping me fund my post-secondary education. I promise to uphold the values in your foundation and continue striving for academic success.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Laura Hummel
James Madison University

Laura H.

Harrisonburg, VA

I would like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for helping me achieve my dreams of soon becoming a teacher. I appreciate their effort and contributions to making my college dreams come true. I would not be able to complete my college degree without the support of foundations like this one.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Justin Moore
James Madison University

Justin M.

Harrisonburg, VA

I am genuinely grateful to the Barber Family Foundation for generously giving me the opportunity to prove myself worthy of this scholarship. I am forever humbled by your contribution to my education; this makes it evermore possible for me to achieve my ambition of pursuing a career in Cyber Defense. It touches my heart thinking of how this foundation believed in my ability to succeed.

2021 Scholarship Recipient

Alexander R.

West Potomac High School

I would once again like to thank the Barber Family Foundation for this amazing opportunity. Knowing that I can take some of the financial burden off of my parent’s shoulders is a wonderful feeling. There are very few military dependent based scholarships out there, and the Barber Family Foundation made the application process easy and accessible.

2020 & 2019 Scholarship Recipients

2020 Scholarship Recipient

Katelyn Shibilski
Florida Southern College

Katelyn S.

Lakeland, FL

I am incredibly grateful for the help the Barber Family Foundation has provided with moving forward with school. I hope to graduate with a bachelor’s and continue on to medical school, and the Barber Family Foundation has made my goal attainable. Thanks to the generous donation made by the Barber Family Foundation, I will be able to fully dedicate myself to school without financial pressures.

2020 Scholarship Recipient

Drew Gable
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Drew G.

Nuames High School • Layton, UT

I am honored to have been chosen as a recipient of the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship. Thanks to the Barber Family Foundation, I will be able to focus more on my education. I look forward to working on earning a Mechanical Engineering degree and doing my part to help solve some of the world’s problems.

2020 Scholarship Recipient

Maria Gonzalez
The Catholic University of America

Maria G.

Washington, DC

I am honored to be one of the recipients of the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship for the second consecutive year. It is because of your generosity that I am able to continue my education so that I may get my Bachelor of Science. As I look to graduate in the spring of 2021, I am thankful to have been given this scholarship that will help me reach my goal of becoming a Physician’s Assistant.

2020 Scholarship Recipient

Lillian Tracy
Villanova

Lillian T.

Kadena High School • Okinawa, Japan

I am very honored and grateful to receive the 2020 Barber Family Foundation scholarship. I will major in Arts Exploratory, but am leaning towards majoring in pre-law. Thank you so much for the opportunity to continue my higher education!

2019 Scholarship Recipient

Summer Burris
College of William & Mary

Summer B.

Annapolis Area Christian School • Bowie, MD

I am so grateful to be given this opportunity by the Barber Family Foundation. I am going in undecided for my major but I am leaning towards Statistics with a minor in Sociology. This scholarship allows me to explore and gain from a liberal arts education at William & Mary.

2019 Scholarship Recipient

Francis Freeman-Moore
University of California, Santa Cruz

Francis F.

Yorktown High School • Arlington, VA

I am honored to be one of the recipients of the Barber Family Foundation Scholarship. I plan to major in Politics, and thanks to their generosity I will be able to attend an accredited research university and work on pursuing my dreams of working in law.

2019 Scholarship Recipient

Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez
The Catholic University of America

Maria G.

Washington, DC

I am honored to be one of the recipients of the 2019 Barber Family Foundation Scholarship. It is because of your generosity that I am able to continue my education so that I may get my Bachelor of Science. As I look to graduate in two years, I am thankful to have been given this scholarship that will help me reach my goal of becoming a doctor.

2019 Scholarship Recipient

Vanessa McFatter
University of Hawaii, Manoa

Vanessa M.

Walkersville High School • Walkersville, MD

I am truly grateful for the scholarship awarded to me by the Barber Family Foundation! I have been dreaming of college for many years now and pondering what I can do to make the world a better place through a higher education. The Barber Family Foundation has helped put me on the road to achieving that goal!

2019 Scholarship Recipient

Valencia Parker
American University

Valencia P.

Wakefield High School • Arlington, VA

For some time now, since being accepted at AU, I have made it a goal to be more involved; with the BFF scholarship, I can achieve this goal by enjoying the benefits that come with college, including internships, research experiences, opportunities to study abroad, as well as clubs and sports.