Trisha Naawu

Trisha Naawu of East Orange, N.J. is a Political Science major with a minor in French.
She has a 3.3 GPA and is an EOF scholar. She has made Dean’s List and hopes to keep it up.

At Ramapo, she is active the Debate Club, the Black Student Union, and Students of Caribbean Ancestry(SOCA). She is also an Upward Bound tutor/counselor for high school students.

“My hope is to work as a legislative aid or teach high school history in the future.”

Awarded Scholarships

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2022

Starmer, Margaret EOF Endowed Scholarship

Margaret Starmer was born in London in 1937.  She trained as a shorthand/typist and worked in London until, as an adventurous traveler, she sailed to New York in the 1960’s.  There she had several jobs, first as a shorthand/typist and then as an administrator, working for a time in Minneapolis as a buyer for a chain of hairdressers.  She completed a finance degree at Ramapo College which gave her the opportunity to work in New York in a finance position for a drug company until her retirement in 2003.  She was a keen hiker and supporter of the NY/NJ Trail Conference and took great interest in the theatre and films.  She always like travel, both in her work, which took her to many Asian countries, and after retirement, in the U.S., Europe and the Far East.  Margaret  passed away in  2017 at the age of 79.   She was always grateful for the opportunities given her by her time and studies at Ramapo College.   Margaret provided a bequest to the College to benefit EOF students .

 

Koskinen, Lindsay and Eric Black Lives Matter Endowed Scholarship

Lindsay Koskinen, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and adjunct faculty member at Ramapo College. She and her husband Eric have volunteered in Paterson, N.J. in a variety of ways since the 1980’s. The purpose of their scholarship is to provide funding to Black students who have graduated from a New Jersey inner city high school, and have gone on to be successful college students.