Scholarship
The Four Chaplains Scholarship Endowment Fund
Rabbi Alexander D. Goode worked to develop York’s interfaith community and helped to lay the groundwork for York’s first racially integrated Boy Scout troop.
The Alexander D. Goode Elementary School in the York City School District is a living memorial to him and to his ideals.
The Four Chaplains Scholarship was established in 2001 from the proceeds of the Four Chaplains Prayer Breakfast.
Ten years later – through the efforts of David Meckley – five York residents developed an Endowment Fund at the York County Community Foundation to create a perpetual scholarship fund to be awarded each year to a student who attended Alexander D. Goode Elementary School and graduated from William Penn Senior High School.
The scholarship award criteria and selection process is conducted through the York City Dollars for Scholars program. In some years, multiple awards have been presented.
Dr. Tana Freeland Andre, center, a 2004 recipient of the Four Chaplains Scholarship, attended Alexander D. Goode Elementary School and later earned her medical degree from University of Dentistry and Medicine in New Jersey. Today, she’s a psychiatrist at an inpatient psychiatric hospital in a suburb of Philadelphia, where she continues to live by the values she saw in the Four Chaplains.
How to apply
Information on how to apply can be found here.
Past Scholarship recipients
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2020
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2019
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2018
Alizaya Santiago
Kaliya Raffensberger
2017
Benjamin Cruz-Ruiz
Alexis Elliot
2016
Janiece Rivera
Yamile Lozada
2015
Esmilse Rodriguez
2014
Cody Nunn
2013
Daisha Givens
2012
Raina Dickison
2011
Jacob Dunklebarger
2010
Edgar Minier
2008
Breonna Wright
LaTicia DeLauder
2007
Shapri Generette
2006
Melanie Marrero
Aaron Kraft
2005
Tuesday Owen
Tanisha Rice
2004
Ruth Tyler
Tana E. Freeland
2003
Nicole Thoman
2002
Taneisha L. Greer
Aliana J. Fisher
2001
Victoria E. M. Stayman