2025 Scholarship Winners Announced!

Scholarship Chair, Betty Dierstein announced the winners!

“LYON FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP (privately funded by the Lyon Family)

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the Lyon Family Scholarship for the 2025-26 school year is Maggie Tu.  Maggie is graduating from the International Baccalaureate Academy at Princess Anne High School with a GPA of 4.63 and will be attending Brown University in the fall.  The Lyon Family Scholarship has a particular emphasis on volunteering. Maggie volunteered for over 700 hours at various organizations including Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia Department of Health Youth Advisory Council, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Nursing Home, Tidewater Chines School, and as a private tutor in advanced math subjects.  Maggi aspires to be a doctor and has shadowed a nurse practitioner, a physician’s assistant and a cancer researcher at EVMS.

LOUISE AND GEORGE LYON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (Ocean Park Civic League legacy scholarship)

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the Louise and George Lyon Memorial Scholarship is Betty Anne (Annie) Stephenson.  Annie is graduating from Cox High School with a 4.09 GPA and will be attending James Madison University in the fall.   She is currently in her second year of the dental assisting program at the Virginia Beach Technical and Career Education Center. She has also been working at a dental office for over a year and assists chair side. Annie plans to attend dental school after completing her B.S. in Biology at JMU. Her volunteer activities were varied and included work with Operation Smile and with Beach Buddies, where students are paired with a special needs student to spend time with and assist with their activities.

A big thank you to Blair Valdivieso and Natalie McIntyre for their time and insights in making these selections.  Applications average 8-10 pages in length and include any number of deserving students.  I appreciate the time spent reading, evaluating, and discussing each applicant’s application.”

Also a huge thank you to chair Betty Dierstein for her work coordinating the scholarship information decimation with the COVB Public Schools and committee work!