Mr. and Mrs. Irving, whose five children all were educated in the Wakefield Public Schools, established this fund to benefit other Wakefield students. Natives of Hampshire, Marjorie and Roscoe Irving settled in Wakefield in 1949. Roscoe served in the Pacific during World War II and graduated from Boston University in 1949. He worked for Coopers & Lybrand immediately following graduation until he retired in 1986. He has served on the Finance Committee of the Town of Wakefield for many years and is also active with the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and The Savings Bank. Marjorie served on the Board of Directors of the E. E. Boit Home beginning in 1963 and she was a volunteer at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. She died in 2005.
Scholarship Recipients
2025
- Lily Brotherton — University of Connecticut
- Julianna Heikkinen — Boston University
- Summer Milsky — University of Maryland, College Park
- Grace Seabury — Keene State College
2024
- Lillyan DeFeo — Gordon College
- Maeve Forrest — Merrimack College
- Valeria Sabov — Massachusetts College of Art & Design
- Peter Swain — Plymouth State University
2023
- Reegan O'Brien — Suffolk University
- Gino Sorrentino — University of New Hampshire
- Tucker Stikeman — Emerson College
- Alyssa Toppi — American University