{"id":616534,"date":"2022-06-20T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=616534"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:51:04","slug":"leonia-high-school-senior-awarded-scholarship-for-being-a-good-friend-student-and-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/616534\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonia High School Senior Awarded Scholarship for Being a Good Friend, Student and Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hackensack (New Jersey) — Being a good friend to others, student and athlete matters.\u00a0\u00a0The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s (NNJCF) The Class of 1964 Ralph Gregg Memorial Scholarship Fund announces Leonia High School senior Richard Cho was named its seventeenth recipient.\u00a0\u00a0He received a scholarship for $1,000 at the high school’s awards ceremony on June 2.\u00a0\u00a0This fall, Cho plans to attend The College of New Jersey.\u00a0\u00a0The NNJCF donor advised fund memorializes Leonia High School 1964 classmate Ralph Gregg.<\/p>\n

Friendship Matters<\/u><\/p>\n

The scholarship award is given to a student seeking to further his or her education, who is also a member of an athletic team, holds a B grade point average or better, and demonstrates some financial need.\u00a0\u00a0“Being a friend is a key part of the scholarship award.\u00a0 The recipient must demonstrate the ability to relate to everyone, be a true friend, and be humorous.\u00a0 We take pride in the Ralph Gregg scholarship being different because its main focus is not on academics or athletics but on friendship and being a great classmate.\u00a0 Frequently, this is the only scholarship our recipient receives,” said Doug Bauer, a member of The Ralph Gregg Scholarship Fund’s advisory committee.<\/p>\n

\"\"While working as a tutor at A&A Prep and with the accounting and tax service firm of Seil LLP, he juggled his academic and athletic schedule.\u00a0\u00a0During high school,\u00a0Cho\u00a0was very active on sports teams and assumed leadership roles.\u00a0\u00a0As a freshman,\u00a0he started as a runner on the Varsity Track team and became captain during his junior and senior years.\u00a0\u00a0He also played Varsity Basketball during his\u00a0freshman, sophomore, and senior years.<\/p>\n

Among his extracurricular activities, he was very involved with DECA, Inc.,\u00a0a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit career and technical student organization, through all four years of high school.\u00a0\u00a0Notably, Cho attended the state conference twice and was a finalist his senior year.\u00a0\u00a0He also volunteered at the food stand at the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) soccer game.<\/p>\n

Philanthropic Opportunities<\/u><\/p>\n

For nearly 25 years, the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation has served the community by offering a comprehensive menu of philanthropic opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0The NNJCF, a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 organization based in Hackensack, New Jersey, focuses primarily on the arts,\u00a0civic engagement, education, the environment, philanthropy, and public health.\u00a0\u00a0The Foundation provides donors with flexible, efficient, and tax-effective ways to ensure their charitable giving has maximum impact through donor-advised funds, tax-saving annuities, and trust options.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Northern NJ Community Foundation encourages philanthropy at any level.\u00a0\u00a0People of different income levels can become philanthropists.\u00a0\u00a0The NNJCF is unique because our minimum fee to establish a charitable fund is significantly lower than other community foundations.\u00a0\u00a0This allows individual donors and groups of donors greater access to the benefits of this type of charitable vehicle,” said Danielle De Laurentis, Associate Director, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.<\/p>\n

For further information about the NNJCF, The Class of 1964 Ralph Gregg Memorial Scholarship Fund, or to set up a charitable fund, call 201-568-5608 or send an e-mail to\u00a0nnjcf@nnjcf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About NNJCF<\/u>
\nFounded in 1998,\u00a0the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Hackensack, New Jersey, focuses primarily on the arts, civic engagement, education, the environment, philanthropy, and public health.\u00a0 The NNJCF works with local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups in Northern New Jersey to improve community life.\u00a0\u00a0The Foundation’s partners identify and resolve regional problems and opportunities by talking and learning from each other and sharing ideas, best practices, services, and resources.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0www.nnjcf.org<\/a>, send an email to\u00a0nnjcf@nnjcf.org<\/a>, or call (201) 568-5608.\u00a0\u00a0Follow the NNJCF on Facebook at Northern NJ Community Foundation\/ArtsBergen, Instagram at nnjcf_artsbergen, LinkedIn, Twitter @NNJCF and YouTube.<\/p>\n

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\n1) Leonia High School senior Richard Cho received the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s The Class of 1964 Ralph Gregg Memorial Scholarship Fund’s 2022 award.<\/p>\n

2) Leonia High School senior Richard Cho (left) received the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s The Class of 1964 Ralph Gregg Memorial Scholarship Fund’s 2022 award from Doug Bauer, a member of the fund’s advisory committee. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Doug Bauer<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Legacy Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hackensack (New Jersey) — Being a good friend to others, student and athlete matters.\u00a0\u00a0The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s (NNJCF) The Class of 1964 Ralph Gregg Memorial Scholarship Fund announces Leonia High School senior Richard Cho was named its seventeenth recipient.\u00a0\u00a0He received a scholarship for $1,000 at the high school’s awards ceremony on June 2.\u00a0\u00a0This fall, Cho plans to attend The College of New Jersey.\u00a0\u00a0The NNJCF donor advised fund memorializes Leonia High School 1964 classmate Ralph Gregg. Friendship Matters The scholarship award is given to a student seeking to further…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":616536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}