Local students receive Butterfield Undergraduate Scholarship to study

Friday,  July 22, 2005

John Gray’s Lauren Ebanks and St Ignatius’ Natasha Kozaily were both awarded the Butterfield Undergraduate Scholarship recently. The award will entitle both candidates to financial assistance of up to US$75,000 each over a three-year period, in order to complete an undergraduate degree starting in the Fall of 2005.

The high caliber of those who applied was shown by that fact the seven of the nineteen applicants were shortlisted.

Lauren Ebanks graduated from the John Gray High School in 2003 obtaining nine higher level passes at CXC/IGCSE. For the past two years she attended the Armand Hammer United World College in New Mexico where she completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Lauren has been actively involved in the Kiwanis Key Club, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and Rotary Junior Achievement. She has represented the Cayman Islands in attending conferences abroad for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Global Youth Leaders Conference and the First Education Youth Summit of the Commonwealth.

Lauren plans to use the money to study law at York University in Ontario, Canada.

Natasha Kozaily graduated from St. Ignatius High School in June of this year and is currently awaiting results of three ‘A’ Level subjects. She obtained eleven higher level passes at IGCSE ‘O’ Levels in 2003 and was awarded the Grade 8 Solo Piano and Grade 6 Alto Saxophone from the Trinity College of London. Natasha is a member of the Cayman National Orchestra and Cayman National Swing Band. She has also played leading roles in several school musicals, such as, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and Spellbound.

Natasha has been accepted at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where she will pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts.

Having first been awarded in 1993, the Butterfield Undergraduate Scholarship is granted annually and was increased to US$150,000 this year for a period of three years. The scholarship is awarded on the basis of merit and is available for any course of academic study beneficial to the Islands as a whole. Recent recipients of the scholarship include Jennifer Bodden, Kimberly Huggins, Omar Wright and Dwight Williams.

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