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The Phillips Foundation Awards $232,000 in Fourth Annual Future Leaders Scholarships

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Jeff Hollingsworth at (202) 842-2002

POTOMAC, Md., April 08, 2003 --- Making its fourth annual awards, The Phillips Foundation today announced the winners of a record $232,000 in merit-based scholarships for academic year 2003-04 under its Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program. Established in 1999, the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program offers renewable and one-time scholarships to college undergraduates who demonstrate exceptional achievements as leaders on behalf of freedom, American values, and constitutional principles.

There are 36 new scholarship winners and 17 students receiving scholarship renewals for academic year 2003-04. Last year, the Foundation’s Trustees awarded $185,000 in scholarships to 32 new winners and 10 renewals.

The Phillips Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society, and a vibrant free enterprise system. In addition to the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program, the Foundation administers an annual journalism fellowship program which provides grants to working print journalists early in their careers.

Recipients of renewable $10,000 scholarships:

• Kelly Coyne of Sacramento, Calif., a sophomore at the University of California-Berkeley, whose award has been designated by the Trustees as the second annual Barbara Olson Memorial Scholarship of The Phillips Foundation in honor of the prominent conservative attorney, author and commentator killed by terrorists on September 11, 2001, in the hijacked jetliner that crashed into the Pentagon,

• Joseph Fairbanks of Norman, Okla., a Stanford University sophomore,

• Charles Mitchell of Glen Mills, Pa., a Bucknell University sophomore.

Recipients of one-time $10,000 scholarships:

• Eric Bates of Erie, Pa., a junior at Denison University,

• Michael McKnight of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Recipient of a renewable $7,500 scholarship:

• Daniel Moody of San Diego, Calif., a sophomore at Arizona State University.

Recipient of a one-time $7,500 scholarship:

• Steve Sexton of Carmichael, Calif., a junior at the University of California-Berkeley.

Recipients of renewable $5,000 scholarships:

• Nancy Barteczko of LaPorte, Ind., a Purdue University sophomore,

• Justin Bell of Huron, S.D., a sophomore at Indiana Wesleyan University,

• Mary Alice “Molly” Cox of Orlando, Fla., University of Florida sophomore,

• Jordan D’Angelo of Kansas City, Mo., a sophomore at Benedictine College (Kan.),

• Paul Dawson of Northridge, Calif., a sophomore at Gonzaga University,

• Alessandra Gonzalez of Houston, Texas, a sophomore at Rice University,

• Sara Meredith of Pittsburgh, Pa., a sophomore at Ithaca College,

• Teresa Moody-Nichols of Raleigh, N.C., a sophomore at Meredith College (N.C.).

Recipients of one-time $5,000 scholarships:

• Charles Davis of Port Allen, La., a junior at Louisiana State University,

• Elizabeth “Betsy” Foster of Virginia Beach, Va., a Hillsdale College junior,

• Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky of Forest Hills, N.Y., a junior at Princeton University,

• Joseph Pylman of New Hartford, N.Y., a junior at Cornell University,

• Cynthia Searcy of Elizabethtown, Ky., a junior at Georgetown University.

Recipients of renewable $2,500 scholarships:

• Catherine Carre of Philadelphia, Pa., a Pennsylvania State University sophomore,

• Adam DiGiovanni of Hampton, Ga., a sophomore at Georgia State University,

• Tobias Harris of Lincolnwood, Ill., a sophomore at Brandeis University,

• Jeanne Martie Hoffman of Yonkers, N.Y., a sophomore at Villanova University,

• Robert Lalka of Roanoke, Va., a sophomore at Yale University,

• Michael Pomarico of New Bern, N.C., a sophomore at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington,

• Anastazia M. E. Skolnitsky of Fairfax, Va., a George Mason University sophomore,

• Jason Walters of Kernersville, N.C., a sophomore at High Point University (N.C.),

• Amber Williams of Crystal, Minn., a sophomore at Northwest College (Minn.).

Recipients of one-time $2,500 scholarships:

• Denise Chaykun of Glen Mills, Pa., a junior at Bucknell University,

• Ruben Duran, III of Oroville, Calif., a junior at the University of Michigan,

• Denise Lambert of Miami, Fla., a junior at Florida International University,

• Jason Miller of East Kansing, Mich., a junior at Michigan State University,

• Heather Leilani Smith of Cape Coral, Fla., a junior at the University of Central Florida,

• Christine Telyan of North Caldwell, N.J., a Harvard University junior.

The Trustees renewed the scholarships of 17 students who received awards under the program for academic year 2002-03. They are:

• $10,000 scholarship: Robert Nardo of Eugene, Ore., a junior at American University.

• $5,000 scholarships: Juniors Jonathan Ballard of Loretto, Ky. (University of Louisville), Eve Barner of Purcellville, Va. (Patrick Henry College), Stephen Beale of Wheaton, Ill. (Brown University), Katherine Borden of Durango, Colo. (Boston University), Mark Gunderson of Bernardsville, N.J. (Williams College),Laurie Hauf of Santa Cruz, Calif. (University of California-Santa Cruz), andMatthew Ng of Hartsdale, N.Y. (Syracuse University).

• $2,500 scholarships: Juniors Brent Beuschel of Sparta, Mich. (Michigan State University), C. Roger Custer of Westlake, Calif. (Ithaca College), Tracy Hunt of Van Buren, Ark. (University of Arkansas-Ft. Smith), Thomas Wear of Crofton, Md. (James Madison University), Andrew Winerman of Burke, Va. (Harvard University), Stefani Zimmerman of Greenville, Wis. (Hillsdale College), andCrystal Zoha of Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University).

• $1,000 scholarships: Juniors Daniel Erspamer of Lakeland, Tenn. (Tulane University), and Charles Ganske of Fort Worth, Texas (University of Texas-Austin).