The AFT Local 1904 is very pleased to have awarded thirteen scholarships in 2025! Recipients were acknowledged virtually (via Zoom) at our Scholarship Award Celebration on Friday, April 25th, 2025.
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Pictured above (top seven then bottom six, left to right) are our Scholarship recipients Olga Mikutina, Evelin Najera, Shayne Hinton, Mikayla Foreman, Brevin Kyei-Nimakoh, Emmanuelle RJ Phillip, Edwin Luna-Gonzalez, Vincent Suppa, Cadia Warner, Mateo Llano, Nevaeh Green, Maxine Caulkins, and Athena Cobos. |
Recipients are all undergraduate students in various majors, in good academic standing, with strong scholastic aspirations, and who have demonstrated that they would substantively benefit from the support of the scholarship as a resource.
Our heartfelt thanks to members of the 2025 Scholarship Committee: Catherine Baird, Keitha DeJonge, Lisa Garrity, Karen Mingo-Campbell, and--with SPECIAL THANKS--Carmen Reyes-Cuevas, who is retiring from the University this year, and who has contributed many years of service to this Committee. Also, sincere thanks to: All those who provided recipients letters of recommendation for our students; Local Office Manager, Deb Corasio, for helping to manage the scholarship applications; and the Officers of the Local 1904, for supporting the Scholarship Committee's award recommendations.
The BKMBUW/Yovnello/Nunn/BCMSU Scholarship Fund was originally established in 1997. The Scholarship currently honors Catherine A. Becker, James P. Keenen III, Joseph T. Moore, Kenneth H. Brook, Anita E. Uhia, and Connie Waller, all former faculty and active union members, as well as Nicholas C. Yovnello and Ellen Kearns Nunn, all of whom were deeply committed to the principles of collective bargaining and to helping our students who demonstrate a significant economic need. The Nunn award is reserved specifically for students who are single parents. The Bloomfield College of Montclair State University (BCMSU), based upon a generous 2023 gift from the BCMSU labor community to the AFT Local 1904's scholarship fund, is reserved specifically for a BCMSU student who meets certain specific criteria.
Please consider contributing to the fund, including in another's name (loved one, etc.). To give to the Fund, please do so via this link (on the "I want to support..." pull-down menu, select “Becker/Keenen/Moore/Brook/Uhia/Waller Endowed Scholarship”).
Congratulations to all thirteen 2025 recipients!