{"id":854283,"date":"2026-06-09T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:18:21","slug":"the-friends-of-the-coronado-public-library-scholarship-program-continues-to-inspire-coronado-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854283\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friends of the Coronado Public Library Scholarship Program continues to inspire Coronado students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Friends of the Coronado Public Library have announced the recipients of the 2026 Coronado High School Scholarships, recognizing exceptional local students for their academic achievement, leadership, community involvement, and passion for lifelong learning.<\/p>\n

The 2026 scholarship recipients were honored at Awards Night on June 1 in the John D. Spreckels Reading Room at the Coronado Public Library. This year\u2019s scholars represent a remarkable range of academic, artistic, and service-oriented accomplishments, continuing the Friends\u2019 long-standing tradition of supporting Coronado students as they pursue higher education and future career goals.<\/p>\n

Scholarships were presented by Friends President Carl Luna and Vice President and Scholarship Committee Chair Sharon Hall. Also attending the ceremony were Friends Board Member Cassie Morton and Becky Seaman Geiss, whose family\u2019s longstanding support through the Wilf & Ruth Seaman Scholarship helps make these awards possible.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor generations of Coronado students, the Library has been a place where curiosity, creativity, and lifelong learning begin,\u201d said Luna. \u201cWe are honored to support these remarkable students as they pursue their next chapters and look forward to seeing the impact they will make in the future.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Friends of the Coronado Public Library Scholarship recipients include:<\/p>\n

The Wilf & Ruth Seaman Scholarship<\/p>\n

Mia Coronado<\/strong>
Attending: Washington University in St. Louis<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Susan Stark Scholarships<\/p>\n

Emma Lund<\/strong>
Rotary Exchange Program \u2014 Taichung, Taiwan
Emma will spend the coming year studying abroad in Taiwan before applying to four-year universities.<\/p>\n

Daniel Vinegrad<\/strong>
Attending: Stanford University \u2014 Sustainable Architecture and Engineering<\/p>\n

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The Jim & Bette Sherman General Curriculum Scholarships<\/p>\n

Dhara Jost
Attending: UCLA \u2014 Environmental Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sean Wilbur
Attending: Cal Poly Pomona \u2014 Mechanical Engineering and Political Science
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\n\"\"<\/a>The Jim & Bette Sherman Fine Arts\/COSA Scholarships<\/p>\n

Annika Haslam
Attending: City of Dublin FET College Ballyfermot, Ireland \u2014 Animation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roxanne Langevin
Attending: University of Southern California<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lena Masutani
Attending: Accepted to both Otis College of Art and Design and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; currently deciding between the two schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anika Talavera<\/strong> (Anika was serving on the technical crew for Islander Youth Theatre\u2019s production of The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition at the time of the Friends Awards Night.)<\/p>\n

The Friends scholarship program itself is entering a new chapter of growth<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, the Friends received a legacy-building donation from the Susan Stark Trust that will expand the impact and future reach of the scholarship program for Coronado students. This donation allowed the Friends to add an additional Susan Stark Scholarship for the 2026 school year. Looking ahead, the Friends are excited to continue working closely with the Stark family and the Trust to thoughtfully develop and grow the program in ways that will create even more opportunities for future generations of Coronado students.<\/p>\n

In addition, longtime supporters Jim and Bette Sherman expanded their scholarship support this year to six awards after being inspired by the exceptional strength and quality of the 2026 applicant pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submitted photo The Friends of the Coronado Public Library have announced the recipients of the 2026 Coronado High…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":854284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,66901,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-854283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-scholarship","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116718227632403912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}