Hunter Wingate from Milton High School is honored as a semi-finalist in the forty-forth annual national Washington Crossing Foundation Scholarship Competition. The prestigious awards are granted to high school seniors for the best all-around presentations including an explanation of why they are planning careers in government service.
The Foundation noted that these students represent the most talented and accomplished of our country's young leaders and that it is these young men and woman who are dedicating themselves to public service. The Foundation's headquarters is in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
The Washington Crossing Foundation scholarships were inaugurated in 1969 and honor the more than sixty years of dedicated service to the nation by the late author-historian Ann Hawkes Hutton. The Foundation believes that if our country is to continue to progress, we must have thoroughly trained, dedicated young men and women to carry on our government's work in future years.
Its scholarship program seeks to find, identify, and encourage young people with the same sense of dedication and service demonstrated by George Washington and his soldiers who, under the most adverse of conditions, cross the Delaware on Christmas Night in 1776 to win the Battle of Trenton that turned the tide of the American Revolution.
Information about the Foundation membership and the Foundation's scholarship program is available at www.gwcf.org or write to the Washington Crossing Foundation, P.O. Box 503, Levittown, PA 19058.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: MHS student honored as semi-finalist in scholarship competition