RTN Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has announced the 2016 recipients of its James A. Burley, Jr. Scholarship Awards. The awards totaling $10,000 are presented annually to three college-bound students whose parents are RTN members.
Sarah Wilkinson of Canton, Mass., received the top award of $5,000. She will be attending Union College in Schenectady, NY, in September. Alexandra Cataldo of Waltham earned $3,000 as the second-place award recipient. She will be a freshman�at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Grant Dolan Hespeler of Andover, Mass., an incoming freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, took home a third-place award of $2,000.
The annual award is named in honor of RTN's late Chairman and Director, James A. Burley, Jr., who served the credit union for more than 30 years. Scholarship recipients are selected based on their written responses to a thematic-based essay. This year, applicants were instructed to "Choose a person or persons you admire and explain why."
"The Burley Scholarship reflects our investment in the next generation of credit union members," said Richard Wright, RTN Treasurer and CEO. "RTN is proud to play a role in helping to make the goal of higher education more financially accessible for our member families."
