My Turn: Congratulations to 2020 Lincoln scholarship recipients

By Carolyn Caswell Dwyer, Nancy Marshall, and Barbara Slayter

The presence of the novel coronavirus and the spread of Covid-19 this spring prevented the Lincoln Scholarship Committee, Lincoln Sudbury High School, and the Codman Board of Trustees from enjoying our customary ways of formally acknowledging and celebrating the recipients of the 2020-2021 scholarships and awards made by the Town of Lincoln. We would like to recognize the following students among Lincoln’s 2020 high school graduates who were recipients of these scholarships. The students, their specific scholarship, and designated next academic institution are:

• Ben Altman (Lincoln Community Scholarship) — UMass-Dartmouth
• Enzo Goodrich (Lincoln Community Scholarship) — DePaul University
• Sydney Kanzer (Lincoln Community Scholarship) — Clark University
• Kiran (Mira) Kharbanda (Codman Opportunity Scholarship) — UMass-Amherst
• Roshan Kharbanda (Ogden Codman Scholarship) — UMass-Amherst

In addition, the recipient of the Sumner Smith Award for Community Service for 2019-2020 was Sydney Kanzer for outstanding community service with The Food Project. This organization seeks to address injustices in the food system through youth participation, bringing together teenagers from Boston and its suburbs to work on urban and suburban farms, to work with hunger relief organizations and to participate in workshops about food access.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all these students and wish them well as they embark on their next educational adventures.

Dwyer, Marshall, and Slayter are members of the Lincoln Scholarship Committee.

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