Carolina Alumni Review - September/October 2010

The latest class of GAA Scholars arrived on campus in August, each student awarded a $1,500 renewable
grant. The program was established in 2001 with a
$500,000 endowment from the GAA. The scholarships,
administered by UNC’s Office of Scholarships and
Student Aid, give preference to children of alumni.
Academic credentials, SAT scores and extracurricular
activities are taken into consideration.

Top recipients, based on high school performance and SAT score, are designated as Douglas S. Dibbert Scholars. Those were established in 2007, when the GAA Board of Directors added $50,000 to the scholarship program in honor of GAA President Doug Dibbert ’ 70 as he marked 25 years of service to the association.

These are the five GAA Scholars for the class of 2014.

; Margaret Barrows, Dibbert Scholar

Hometown: Charlotte Alumna parent: Mary Newsom ’ 74

Major: Sociology or anthropology, minor in French

; Samuel Foy Painter, Dibbert Scholar

Hometown: Gastonia Alumni parents: Jane Foy Painter ’ 83

(’ 86 JD), Phil Painter ’ 83 Major: Philosophy and computer science

; Jared Foster Giles

Hometown: Louisville, Ky.

Alumna parent: Diane Foster ’ 75

Major: Business administration, possible double major or minor in philosophy, psychology or entrepreneurship

; John Christopher Guzek

Hometown: South Abington
Township, Pa.
Alumnus parent: John R.

Guzek ’08 (MPH)
Major: Economics and sociology
double major

; Christopher Geiger Schaeffer

Hometown: Raleigh
Alumni parents: John Kenneth
Schaeffer ’ 80 (MBA), Janie Geiger
Schaeffer ’ 80
Major: Business administration,
minor in finance or Mandarin

Learn more about them and recipients
from previous class years at

alumni.unc.edu/scholarships. ;

— Katie Lubinsky
Students

Christopher Geiger Schaeffer

Margaret Barrows Samuel Foy Painter Jared Foster Giles John Christopher Guzek

New GAA Scholars Get a Boost as They Start at UNC

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local Carolina Club has planned. If your Club has not
selected a project, contact your local Club leader.

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