June 30th, 2024

Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Eunice B. Farr Incentive Award scholarships.  “It is a pleasure to award these scholarships on an annual basis.  We wish these motivated students the best of luck in their future endeavors,” said Eric Haskin, President and CEO of Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom. This year’s recipients were as follows:

Champlain Valley Union High School –  Molly Dubois
Harwood Union High School – Melanie Snell
Mount Abraham Union High School –  Shelby Bartlett
Mount Mansfield Union High School – Lila Brillhart
Middlebury Union High School –  Julian Cottell
Vergennes High School –  Kaelin Sullivan

Each year, Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom grants six $1,000 scholarships, one to each of the public high schools that students from our service area attend.  These scholarships are donated in memory of the late Eunice B. Farr, former owner and operator of the Waitsfield-Fayston Telephone Company and grandmother of Eric Haskin.  The criteria of the scholarship is as follows, “The award should be presented to a graduating senior that plans subsequent education, be it college or trade school.  The faculty should select an individual that has shown a steady improvement in his or her academics, but is not necessarily at the top of the class.  The award is designed to benefit a hard-working graduate that his or her instructors have found to demonstrate a sincere effort to improve grades/results and plans continuing education.”

Congratulations to all graduates!