Each year gets more and more challenging as we continue to have incredibly bright, talented, and driven young folks apply to be a part of the NVC Foundation scholarship program. Our committee would like to thank the NVC & NVC Foundation members and extended community for their continued support in donating to the Scholarship Fund. In addition, we would like to thank the family members of the late Col. Jimmie Kanaya for funding an NVC scholarship award and the Shigihara Family for funding a NVC Foundation scholarship. We appreciate your family’s generous contribution in commemoration of your loved ones. This is one actionable way we will continue to be able to remember the past by educating the future.  

I would like to thank the scholarship committee members, Mary Ann Yamaguchi, Melanie King, Lauryn Takisaki, and Sue Beeson for their continued partnership in helping to organize, revise, plan, and score applications.

It is with deep pleasure that we congratulate the four outstanding scholarship awardees of this year’s NVC and NVC Foundation Scholarship Program:

Kaya Terada               NVC Women’s Auxiliary Committee Scholarship Award

James Jinguji             NVC Foundation Okagesama de Scholarship Award

Shane Deguchi           NVC Col. Jimmie Kanaya Memorial Scholarship

Selena Liu                   NVC Foundation Mark Shigihara Memorial Scholarship

[NOTE: For scholarship details and more background on our scholarship recipients, please read their Essay articles. Two scholarship essay articles will be printed in the May newsletter and two will be printed in the June newsletter.]