48 The Queens Courier • buzz • JULY 24, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com CHECK PRESENTATION RAFFLE DONATION GATHERING Send us your announcements & pictures to: The Queens Courier c/o making a buzz: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 • editorial@queenscourier.com subject: making a buzz s people making a buzz SCHOLARSHIPS THE COURIER/Photo by Liam La Guerre Victoria Schneps (left), publisher of The Courier, and Demetra Plagakos (right), events manager, present a check to QCP Director of Development Maryann McAleer. The money was raised in a raffle at the Top Women in Business event in May. Nancy Lin Taylor Moss BY PAULINA TAM editorial@queenscourier.com Photos courtesy Nancy Lin and Taylor Moss Howard Beach resident and Archbishop Molloy High School senior Taylor Moss and Flushing native and Stuyvesant High School senior Nancy Lin were two of five students to each receive a $16,000 college scholarship ($4,000 per year) from the Ronald McDonald House Charities Scholarship Program. Moss will be attending the College of the Holy Cross and Lin will be at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. At Archbishop Molloy, Moss played for the softball team, volunteered as a peer tutor, helped out in her school’s blood drive and fundraiser for the Typhoon Haiyan Relief Program, and was a member of the environmental club. At Stuyvesant High School, Lin was part of the Arista Honor Society, attended many outreach programs, tutored children in her community for free, was a member of Stuyvesant’s Red Cross Club and got medals in national exams for Latin and Spanish. Lin also had to allocate a lot of time to taking care of her little brother, who is autistic, and her mother, who is undergoing chemotherapy. THE COURIER/Photo by Rosa Lovis Executives from New York Community Bancorp presented a check to the Central Queens Y on July 9. (l - r) James S. Muzio, first vice president, marketing manager of New York Community Bancorp; Stephen Sincovich, first vice president, Queens County Savings Bank, a division of New York Community Bank – Forest Hills Branch; Gianpiero Careddu, senior vice president, retail banking regional executive, New York Community Bancorp; Jeri Mendelsohn, executive vice president and CEO of the Central Queens Y. Two Queens seniors ‘lovin’ it’ as they win Ronald McDonald House scholarships The Friends of Melinda Katz gathered for a fundraiser in Douglaston on June 30. Carl F. Mattone, Heskel Elias, Melinda Katz, Janet Elias, Demetra Plagakis, Curtis Sliwa Joseph Crowley, Melinda Katz, Carl F. Mattone
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