Gavin Parto
MARGATE – Residents Madelyn Fox and Gavin Parto will each receive $2500 scholarships from the Margate Business Association’s annual Daniel and Maria Walters Scholarship Program. The two students bested a field of 10 scholarship applicants who submitted essays on the topic, “If I had to describe the year 2020 in one word, it would be _____.”
Atlantic City High School senior Madelyn Fox chose the word “community” for her essay. In her words, “Communities developed unique strategies to come together throughout the pandemic. Despite the adversity faced, community was a common theme of 2020.”
Madelyn Fox
An active community volunteer, outstanding athlete, and member of the National Honor Society, she will attend Temple University in the fall to pursue a career in Exercise and Sport Science.
Gavin Parto, an Ocean City High School graduate, is a Distinguished Honors student and varsity letter athlete. For his essay, Parto chose the word “limitless” and stated in his essay, “The year 2020 was a year in which the entire world was tested and pushed past what anyone of us could have imagined.”
He will attend the University of South Carolina in pursuit of a degree in Business/Entrepreneurial Studies.
The Margate Business Association’s Daniel and Maria Walters Scholarship Program has awarded more than $115,000 in scholarships since the program’s inception.
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