Geoffrey August Walter was born on October 19, 1990 and died on September 9, 2001 after suffering a heart attack. He had been born with a rare heart defect. He was 40 days short of his 11th birthday. Geoffrey was a happy, healthy, athletic boy. He lived his entire life in Wakefield with his parents, Richard and Jennifer, and his younger brother Matthew. He had attended the Dolbeare School and was just beginning 5th grade at the Galvin Middle School.
Geoffrey had a wide variety of interests. He was an outstanding student, had played piano for four years, and was a natural athlete playing sports, including baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, hockey, football, golf and ping-pong. Baseball was his favorite sport. Geoffrey played in the Wakefield Little League starting with T-ball and working his way up to the Majors and even played on the Bay State All Star Team for Wakefield.
The Geoffrey A. Walter Fund has been established to help keep Geoffrey’s memory alive and to help support Wakefield students going to college. Geoffrey was an excellent student who had made plans for himself to attend a Catholic College with a strong baseball program and an excellent history department, where he could pursue his interests.
Scholarship Recipients
2025
- Meagan Beaver — Connecticut College
- Amanda Courtright — Keene State College
- Kevin DeGray — University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Molly Forrest — Springfield College
- Joseph Fuery — Merrimack College
- Samantha Goc — Stonehill College
- Zachary Goc — Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Luke Greif — Syracuse University
- Joseph Lanza — Emerson College
- Rebecca Melanson — Northeastern University
- Evie Mertens — Fitchburg State University
- John Morris — Tulane University
- Patrick Murphy — Saint Joseph's College, ME
- Owen Riddell — University of Rhode Island
- Luke Shea — Savannah College of Art and Design
- Cassidy Silva — George Washington University
2024
- Lauren Blois — St. Anselm College
- Abigail Boudreau — Merrimack College
- Oisin Cullen — Concordia University (Montreal)
- Michael Donovan — University of Massachusetts – Lowell
- Matthew Elwell — St. Joseph's College of Maine
- Tommy Frohlichstein — Boston College
- Jesse Guzman — Dalhousie University
- Luke Ickes — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Alexa Kelliher — University of New Hampshire
- Joseph LaMonica — University of Massachusetts – Amherst
- Colby Lee — Franklin Pierce University
- Chase McCarthy — Endicott College
- Owen McEleney — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Daniel McNeill — St. Anselm College
- Brady Murphy — University Of New England
- Ryan Sallee — University of Vermont
- Philip Valley — Framingham State University
- Jackson Wyatt — University of Vermont
2023
- Jack Callahan — Providence College
- Harrison Cleversey — Suffolk University
- Scott Cooley — Merrimack College
- Emanuel Donovan — Salem State University
- Matthew Elwell — St. Joseph's College of Maine
- William Garside — Roger Williams University
- Joseph LeBlanc — Emerson College
- Jason Margerison — Stonehill College
- Matthew McKean — Merrimack College
- Rowan Mondello — Babson College
- Jake Sowyrda — University of Rhode Island
- Matthew Tobey — St. Anselm College
- Jackson Williams — Rivier University
- Jackson Wyatt — University of Vermont
- Leo Yardumian — Curry College