Nursing student, teacher-in-training win church scholarships
Two students – one studying nursing and the other planning to become a special education teacher – received $500 scholarships from the congregation of a Bay Ridge church which established the fund in memory of a deceased church member.
Gabriel Benitez, a nursing student at Kingsborough Community College, and Anthony Maguire, a Brooklyn College student, were awarded the First Jim Gillies Memorial Scholarships by the congregation of Bay Ridge United Church in a ceremony last month.
The scholarships were presented to Benitez and Maguire at a joint worship service of Bay Ridge United Church and the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church.