It is with a grateful heart and our profound appreciation and gratitude to the Chynn family for their generous gifts to Catholic education at the Academy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! We are proud to announce this year’s three Chynn Family Scholarship Award winners. These scholarships ($1,000.00 each) are awarded at the end of each academic year in the form of a credit toward the recipients’ next year’s tuition. The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic achievement to a 5th grader, a 6th grader and a 7th grader for their 6th, 7th and 8th grade tuition.
The recipients will be required to have achieved the following:
- A+ or A in all academic subjects (e. Religion, Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science)
- O or S in all other subjects (e. Art, Music, Technology, and Spanish)
- O or S in Personal Development
- No minus in any sub-categories
- No detentions or discipline slips
- No more than three (3) tardies in each trimester.
Dr. York Chynn and Mrs. Marie Noelle Chynn
The Chynn Family Foundation is recognized by the IRS as a charitable organization, and was established in 2005 to promote research/education and morality/ethics. The Chynn Family Foundation has donated $100,000 to fund an essay contest for middle school students at the Academy of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Tenafly, NJ, $10,000 to fund a scholarship for high school students at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, NJ, $100,000 to support the School of Social Work at Fordham University (where Mrs. Chynn received her MSW), $100,000 to support research by radiology residents at Columbia University’s Department of Radiology (where Dr. Chynn is Clinical Professor of Radiology Emeritus), and $100,000 to support research in neuro-radiology with the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA).
