We will be a step closer to our goals of incorporation tomorrow - Friday, October 9, 2009.
Our meeting with Lawyers Alliance is set for 4:15pm where we will further discuss the scholarship's objectives, reason for incorporation, and review the process.
A few of our board members, Roslyn Sternlieb, Karen Texiera and Fanny Mera, and myself will be attending this meeting.
Please know all of our Board Members were carefully and thoughtfully decided with family members, including Steph's mom, Silvia Agrinsoni-Melendez. All are wonderfully talented, giving and caring individuals who's professional experiences and individual dedication will only benefit the organization's development and growth. Thank you for volunteering your time, energies and skills.
Board Members are:
--Cris Italia
--Fanny Mera
--Magdalena Ocampo
--Roslyn Sternlieb
--Karen Texeira
--Diana Diaz-Torres (myself)
Thanks to everyone for their support in this process.
Updates will be posted as we continue to move forward.
Welcome to Stephanie's Scholarship blog. We created this to share our loving memory of one special individual who left a print in all our lives. The special person who inspired all of us to never give up on our dreams. Here is to you Stephanie.
10.08.2009
9.09.2009
Update on Stephanie's Scholarship
Submission for Legal Assistance
This year marks our second year with now two talented and aspiring recepients. Knowing these two great young adults is an inspiration in itself to make this happen. They are truly living Stephanie's dream. We love and miss you Steph, your dreams will live on through these individuals and future recepients.
Tomorrow, I will be submitting the paperwork to the New York Lawyers Alliance for their legal assistance for the incorporation and tax exemption of the scholarship as an organization. It will be the only way for generous donors to be able to put their donations on their taxes at the end of the year. There have been many wonderful people who have been wanting to donate now but its only fair to wait for this process to take place.
It has taken me some time but now being focused to complete this has settled in.
Goals:
1- Incorporate
2- Tax Exemption
3- Possibly creating an Endowment - (so the scholarship can live on forever)
Any suggestions or advice is welcome. I will try my best to post updates as this process gets started until its completion.
Sincerely,
Diana
Steph's Aunt
This year marks our second year with now two talented and aspiring recepients. Knowing these two great young adults is an inspiration in itself to make this happen. They are truly living Stephanie's dream. We love and miss you Steph, your dreams will live on through these individuals and future recepients.
Tomorrow, I will be submitting the paperwork to the New York Lawyers Alliance for their legal assistance for the incorporation and tax exemption of the scholarship as an organization. It will be the only way for generous donors to be able to put their donations on their taxes at the end of the year. There have been many wonderful people who have been wanting to donate now but its only fair to wait for this process to take place.
It has taken me some time but now being focused to complete this has settled in.
Goals:
1- Incorporate
2- Tax Exemption
3- Possibly creating an Endowment - (so the scholarship can live on forever)
Any suggestions or advice is welcome. I will try my best to post updates as this process gets started until its completion.
Sincerely,
Diana
Steph's Aunt
6.28.2009
Yearly Letter from Christine Rivas, Our First Scholarship Recipient
June 16th 2009
Dear Stephanie Burgos’s family,
I’ve been doing pretty well, in school and otherwise. I finally figured out my major. I’m going to major in creative writing and minor in theater, so I can be a screenwriter or a playwriter or something like that. I took Creative Writing this term and I really liked it, so I’ve decided to make that what I do for a living. And I’ve always been fascinated with theater and would love for it to be a part of my career.
I’ve been thinking about ways to use everything I’ve learned in classes, and I’ve settled on writing a play or a short skit of some sort, for my church or maybe even just for fun, to film it or publish it in some way. I also got one of my poems published in my school program’s magazine, along with things I’d written in class, which was really exciting for me. I’m already thinking about a big side project, and when it’s on Youtube or somewhere where it can be viewed, you’ll be the first to know.
I noticed that Richard Bohan won the scholarship this year when I looked at the memorial site, and I don’t think you could have picked a better person for it. I knew him back in high school, and he was one of the nicest people I’d met in Cleveland. It was really cool for me to see that somebody I knew got the same scholarship I did.
I’m getting ready to go back to work as a lifeguard, which is always pretty fun. I still work at the same pool I always did, which is in Alphabet City. I’m going to end up getting paid more, which is always fun. I just finished my test, and I passed it. My job has always been really important to me, for a lot of reasons. I like the people there, and I like that I have the opportunity to be able to do something I like every day and get paid for it, which is kind of the point of college, to do something you like with your time, and I feel like I’m doing that.
I’m having a really good time in college, and I can’t wait to go back to school and work in a few weeks, and I feel like I picked the right school for me. And considering how hard it was applying and picking out a school, I think this is going to help me become what I want to become and the person I know I can be.
Yours,
Christine Rivas
Dear Stephanie Burgos’s family,
I’ve been doing pretty well, in school and otherwise. I finally figured out my major. I’m going to major in creative writing and minor in theater, so I can be a screenwriter or a playwriter or something like that. I took Creative Writing this term and I really liked it, so I’ve decided to make that what I do for a living. And I’ve always been fascinated with theater and would love for it to be a part of my career.
I’ve been thinking about ways to use everything I’ve learned in classes, and I’ve settled on writing a play or a short skit of some sort, for my church or maybe even just for fun, to film it or publish it in some way. I also got one of my poems published in my school program’s magazine, along with things I’d written in class, which was really exciting for me. I’m already thinking about a big side project, and when it’s on Youtube or somewhere where it can be viewed, you’ll be the first to know.
I noticed that Richard Bohan won the scholarship this year when I looked at the memorial site, and I don’t think you could have picked a better person for it. I knew him back in high school, and he was one of the nicest people I’d met in Cleveland. It was really cool for me to see that somebody I knew got the same scholarship I did.
I’m getting ready to go back to work as a lifeguard, which is always pretty fun. I still work at the same pool I always did, which is in Alphabet City. I’m going to end up getting paid more, which is always fun. I just finished my test, and I passed it. My job has always been really important to me, for a lot of reasons. I like the people there, and I like that I have the opportunity to be able to do something I like every day and get paid for it, which is kind of the point of college, to do something you like with your time, and I feel like I’m doing that.
I’m having a really good time in college, and I can’t wait to go back to school and work in a few weeks, and I feel like I picked the right school for me. And considering how hard it was applying and picking out a school, I think this is going to help me become what I want to become and the person I know I can be.
Yours,
Christine Rivas
5.20.2009
Congratulations to Richard Bohan
Top is a picture Of Ms. Sternlieb (College Advisor) with Richard; Middle Picture a Solo Pic of Richard; Bottom picture of Richards mother, Richard and myself.
Yesterday May 19,2009 in Grover Cleveland High School I had the opportunity to watch a young man receive the Stephanie Marie Burgos Scholarship, Richard Bohan is the second person to have received this blessing in which my aunt Diana has helped established.
Meeting Richard I felt a presence and welcoming that only my sister Stephanie possessed; like Stephanie, Richard has a quality that you rarely find in people who have to struggle with a high quality of adversity and beat all odds. I can truthfully say that watching him receive all his academic awards I was amazed at how dedicated towards receiving an education that this young man contains within himself, the passion and drive to do good no matter what is something that many young people are lacking these days but not Richard. He like my little sister, both contain a strive to be the best and to shine brighter than others would expect. I had the pleasure to meet his mom briefly and just like her child she to possess a welcoming feeling, I joke fully told Richard he is now ours and we are going to keep him in which he agreed. To me I felt that this young man is the perfect example like Christine who to received the scholarship last year of what qualities my sister had before we lost her.
Stephanie was a bright girl who had qualities that many people could never gain in their entire lifetime, she was kind hearted, thoughtful, welcoming, considerate, energetic and most of all loving. We lost her but yet she still remains near and dear to our heart and last night proved to me that there is more people out there like her, all though they might be one in a million.
My gratitude goes off to Richard Bohan, who I know will be the best Journalist out there and I cannot wait to pick up a newspaper or a magazine and read one of his articles in the future. He has a talent for writing in which many people cannot even imagine, I read one of his essays and believe me when I say I usually have little interest in some writers works but when I read his essay I could not help but want more to read.
Congratulations Richard we are all proud of you and I know you will not just inspire me with your work but you will inspire the world!
Meeting Richard I felt a presence and welcoming that only my sister Stephanie possessed; like Stephanie, Richard has a quality that you rarely find in people who have to struggle with a high quality of adversity and beat all odds. I can truthfully say that watching him receive all his academic awards I was amazed at how dedicated towards receiving an education that this young man contains within himself, the passion and drive to do good no matter what is something that many young people are lacking these days but not Richard. He like my little sister, both contain a strive to be the best and to shine brighter than others would expect. I had the pleasure to meet his mom briefly and just like her child she to possess a welcoming feeling, I joke fully told Richard he is now ours and we are going to keep him in which he agreed. To me I felt that this young man is the perfect example like Christine who to received the scholarship last year of what qualities my sister had before we lost her.
Stephanie was a bright girl who had qualities that many people could never gain in their entire lifetime, she was kind hearted, thoughtful, welcoming, considerate, energetic and most of all loving. We lost her but yet she still remains near and dear to our heart and last night proved to me that there is more people out there like her, all though they might be one in a million.
My gratitude goes off to Richard Bohan, who I know will be the best Journalist out there and I cannot wait to pick up a newspaper or a magazine and read one of his articles in the future. He has a talent for writing in which many people cannot even imagine, I read one of his essays and believe me when I say I usually have little interest in some writers works but when I read his essay I could not help but want more to read.
Congratulations Richard we are all proud of you and I know you will not just inspire me with your work but you will inspire the world!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Burgos-Rosado (Eldest Sister of Stephanie Marie Burgos)
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