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he Swarthmore Centennial Foundation awards the $6,000 Edmund Jones Scholarship to an outstanding high school senior who resides in Swarthmore. Mr. Jones, former Mayor of Swarthmore, was a founding member of the Centennial Foundation and was the creator of this scholarship that has been awarded to a high school senior every year since 1993. The scholarship winner is selected based on the student’s citizenship, community service, and academic achievement. This year’s winner is Marie Lowry, and this is her essay.
In collaboration with painter Robert Bohné and Gallery on Park, the Swarthmore Centennial Foundation is offering prints of a downtown Swarthmore scene for purchase.
The Swarthmore Centennial Foundation will recognize a person or organization who has made Swarthmore a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable place to work, learn, do business, or live. Fostering human dignity and an awareness of our common humanity is difficult work. The “Shine a Light” award honors a person or organization who has demonstrated compassion, perseverance, courage, and leadership in working to strengthen the Swarthmore community in this way.
The Swarthmore Centennial Foundation is pleased to award the Edmund Jones Scholarship to 2019 high school graduate Lena Lofgren. Here is her winning essay about her life in Swarthmore.
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