Muriel MacDonald established this fund in her own name at the same time that she set up a fund in memory of her parents and a fund in memory of her aunt. Miss MacDonald was a member of the Wakefield High School Class of 1942 and a 1944 graduate of Fisher Junior College. She began working as a secretary for the Wakefield Savings Bank in 1947 and retired in 1986, having served as Executive Secretary to three different Executive Officers.
Scholarship Recipients
2025
- Emma Scalzo — Savannah College of Art and Design
2024
- Isabella Birchem — Northeastern University
- Amanda Courtright — Keene State College
- Jenna Dunton — University of Alabama – online
- Gavin Frey — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Emma Johnsen — Endicott College
- Christina Joseph — Temple University
- Lazar Kaminsky — New England Conservatory of Music
- Annie King — Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Colby Lee — Franklin Pierce University
- Elena Lotti — University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
- Thomas Markham IV — Suffolk University
- Rachel McGovern — Salem State University
- Amanda McKean — Villanova University
- Gabriella Minasian — Villanova University
- Charlotte O'Neil — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Emma Patch — Merrimack College
- Jordyn Pugsley — Roger Williams University
- Drew Riley — Providence College
- Valeria Sabov — Massachusetts College of Art & Design
- Jillian Schwartzberg — Endicott College
- Ava Sowyrda — Roger Williams University
- Jake Sowyrda — University of Rhode Island
- Tucker Stikeman — Emerson College
- Peter Swain — Plymouth State University
- Cheyenne Toppi — University of New Hampshire
- Ava Vaughn — University of Massachusetts – Lowell
- Grace Wallace — Providence College
2023
- Antonio Anastasiades — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Jesscia Auffrey — Stonehill College
- Drew Barrett — Nichols College
- Lola Barrett — Sacred Heart University
- Michael Calamonici — Salem State University
- Harrison Cleversey — Suffolk University
- Joseph Colliton — University of Tampa
- Maxwell Cusack — University of Tennessee – Knoxville
- Emmanuella Desruisseaux — Rice University
- Claire Doherty — Tufts University
- Madison Goc — Roger Williams University
- ReignYah Grant — North Carolina Central University
- Craig Hatfield — Merrimack College
- Hannah Kelley — University of New Hampshire
- Brandon Kiley — Michigan State University
- Effie Koutroubis — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Panagiota Koutroubis — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Colby Lee — Franklin Pierce University
- Jason Margerison — Stonehill College
- Gabriella Minasian — Villanova University
- Zachary Murphy — Keene State College
- Reegan O'Brien — Suffolk University
- Alandra Ponze — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Michael Roberto — University of Massachusetts – Lowell
- Valeria Sabov — Massachusetts College of Art & Design
- Ryan Sallee — University of Vermont
- Grace Seabury — Keene State College
- Owen Tamborini — Bentley University
- Julia Tobey — Boston College
- Jackson Williams — Rivier University