By Brianna Ishihara

The NVC Foundation Scholarship Committee would like to thank all the hard-working
scholars who applied for educational scholarships this year. Your passion to
make meaningful and important change in our world is needed now, more than
ever. 

We would also like to thank the NVC and NVC Foundation members for your continued
support in funding the higher education scholarship program. Without your
contributions, the scholarship program would cease to exist. 

The committee would also like to thank Enoch and Lynn Kanaya for funding the Col.
Jimmie Kanaya Memorial Scholarship and Gwen Shigihara and family for the Dr.
Mark Shigihara Memorial Scholarship. Again, 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.  

Finally, 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.

We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 NVC and NVC Foundation
Scholarships: 

Okagesama de NVC Foundation Scholarship:

Kai Vu

Mateo Mar

Ty Shimizu

Dr. Mark Shigihara Memorial Scholarship

Alicia Sasaki

NVC Col. Jimmie Kanaya Memorial Scholarship:

Kelan Sato 

NVC Women’s Auxiliary Scholarship:

Karissa Yamaguchi