PRCUA: Official News Release

PRCUA Supports Members by Awarding
Scholarships and Grants
for the 2011-12 School Year

Each year, the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America is pleased to be able to provide financial aid to its members who are pursuing a higher education in college, graduate school and professional programs.

This support is in the form of scholarships awarded from the PRCUA Educational Fund Inc. and grants awarded from the PRCUA Scholarship Program. This year, a total of $28,750 in scholarships and grants was awarded to sixty-nine students. Thirty-six scholarships ($14,250) came from the PRCUA’s Education Fund, Inc. and thirty-three grants ($14,500) were awarded from the PRCUA’s Scholarship Program.

Thanks are extended to the three members of the PRCUA Scholarship Committee: Kenneth Gill, Iwona Piacenti and Leonard Kurdek, for reviewing all of the applications and selecting the recipients. Each application was assigned a number by the Secretary- Treasurer’s office and all identifying material was removed from the file so that the Scholarship Committee members did not know the identity of the student whose application they were reviewing. This procedure - which has been in place for years - insures that there is no favoritism involved in the selection of the recipients or the amount they are awarded.

Congratulations and best wishes to the recipients! The PRCUA scholarship and grant recipients for the 2011 school years are listed below:

2011 PRCUA EDUCATIONAL FUND SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

First Name	Last Name	Status	School	Society
Karolina	Baran	Sophomore	Oakton Community College	1626
Kaitlyn	Belcher	Senior	Madonna University	1413
Annette	Bellar	Senior	University of Toledo	2100
John	Bieda	Sophomore	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	1618
Shannon	Ciuk	Junior	Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts	359
Meghan	Clark	Sophomore	Wheaton College	317
Steven	Crissey	Junior	University of Illinois at Chicago	849
Sebastian	Cyran	Senior	DePaul University	1626
Katherine	Dziuba	Junior	Eastern Michigan University	162
Brian	Fairbrother	Senior	Oakland University	1618
Mark	Fairbrother	Sophomore	Central Michigan University	1618
Alicia	Flynn	Senior	Saginaw Valley State University	261
Brian	Gaughan	Senior	Loras College	239
Natalie	Gaughan	Junior	Eastern Illinois University	239
Sonia	Grabowski	Sophomore	Purdue University-Calumet	234
Andrew	Greenia	Sophomore	Loyola University - Chicago	1618
Paula	Grzebien	Junior	Saginaw Valley State University	1626
Luke	Hartwick	Sophomore	University of Illinois-Springfield	1004
Alexander	Hill	Sophomore	University of Scranton	2030
Laura	Holmes	Sophomore	University of Michigan	162
Amanda	Jaczkowski	Sophomore	Central Michigan University	1618
Stephanie	Jaczkowski	Senior	Central Michigan University	1618
Joann	Kaczmarczyk	Junior	University of Illinois	1626
Thomas	Kaczmarczyk	Sophomore	University of Illinois	1626
Daniel	Kaminski	Sophomore	University Wisconsin-Stevens Point	2303
Christopher	Kasia	Senior	University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	1626
Alexandra	Katacinski	Sophomore	Bloomsburg University	1615
Joseph	Katacinski	Senior	Penn State University Park	1615
Dominika	Koper	Senior	University of Michigan	1477
Mateusz	Koper	Sophomore	Lawrence Technological University	1477
Katrina E.	Odrobina	Sophomore	Elmhurst University	1585
Samantha	Staron	Sophomore	Illinois State University	1611
Johanna	Van Liew	Junior	Hope College	413
Julie	Whitney		University of Missouri	1004
Meagan	Yothment	Senior	Loyola University - Chicago	1579
Patricia	Zupnik	Senior	Loyola University - Chicago	1605