GAR Memorial Foundation
 
 
Recipients

We congratulate our newest college graduates: Daniel Cuyler from Northeastern, Cameron Greene from Yale, Parker Harnett from Williams, Mandy Moran from St. Olafs, Cassandra Pantelis from Penn State, Victoria Rash from the University of Texas: Dallas, Carolina Remond from the University of Arkansas, Julia Saunders from Duke and Caroline Graham from Pepperdine (in 3 years!).

Announcing our newest scholars:

Gavin Bender
Hometown: Garden City, MI
Parent Employer: Comerica Bank
College: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jaxon Christensen
Hometown: Roosevelt, UT
Parent Employer: Self Employed - AR/AP/Payroll for small businesses
College: Southern Utah University

Evelyn Kelly
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Parent Employer: Signia Capital
College: University of Notre Dame

Morgan Lin
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Parent Employer: UBS
College: Villanova University

Ethan Otto
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Parent Employer: Allstate
College: University of Miami

Rebekah Rich
Hometown: Fort Mill, SC
Parent Employer: Wells Fargo Bank
College: Wake Forest University

Brian DeMott
Hometown: Torrance, CA
Parent Employer: Pacific Mortgage Finance / DeMott Real Estate
College: Loyola Marymount University

 

The 2024 GAR scholars are:

Arianna Anderson
Hometown: East Hartford, CT
Parent Employer: Key Bank
College: Princeton University

Jane Bleakley
Hometown: Sparta Township, NJ
Parent Employer: Certified Financial Services
College: Clemson University

Robyn Kopeny
Hometown: Elgin, IL
Parent Employer: Progressive Insurance
College: Tulane University

Ioelle Y. Lee
Hometown: Urbana, IL
Parent Employer: State Universities Retirement System
College: University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Emily Tharpe
Hometown: Charlotte Court House, VA
Parent Employer: Bank of Charlotte County
College: Mary Washington

Evelyn Vaughn
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Parent Employer: Legal & General Investment Management America
College: Howard University

Ben Zima
Hometown: Glen Ellyn, IL
Parent Employer: US Bank Global Fund Services
College: Illinois Wesleyan University

 

 

The 2023 GAR scholars are:

Kory S. Dixon
Hometown: New Hampton, NY
Parent employer: Acrisure LLC / Seely Durland
College: SUNY College of Technology at Delhi

Luke M. Freed
Hometown: Cooper City, FL
Parent employer: Real Estate Home Sales
College: Columbia

Anna R. Kove
Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
Parent employer: CAI Investments LLC
College: University of California Los Angeles

Cailyn E. MacLellan
Hometown: Charleston, WV
Parent employer: Healthsmart
College: John Jay College of Criminial Justice

Aidan P. Moran
Hometown: Locust Valley, NY
Parent employer: Northeast Wealth Management
College: Yale University

Grace K. Toman
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Parent employer: Mutual Benefit Group
College: University of Pittsburgh

Keatyn G. Wede
Hometown: Mitchell, SD
Parent employer: Progressive Insurance
College: Georgetown University

 

 

The 2022 GAR scholars are:

Lauren G. Bartel
Hometown: Coral Gables, FL
Parent employer: Hamptons Group LLC
College: Harvard

Mariano A. Desmaras
Hometown: Ossining, NY
Parent employer: Oppenheimer & Co.
College: Cornell University

Caroline J. Graham
Hometown: Wilmington, DE
Parent employer: Pango Financial
College: Pepperdine University

Apollo W. Lee
Hometown: Manalapan, NJ
Parent employer: Citadel Securities
College: Stanford

Jasmine Carby
Hometown: East Hartford, CT
Parent employer: Travelers
College: U. Conn Storrs

Colin J. DuHamel
Hometown: Camarillo, CA
Parent employer: PlanMember Securities
College: California Poly Tech

Selora C. Langston
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Parent employer: Deutsche Bank
College: University of Florida

Omolabaka (Labake) N. Oyebamiji
Hometown: Florissant, MO
Parent employer: Citi Group
College: Washington University

 

Map

Alumni:

2025 GAR Graduates:
Daniel Cuyler - Northeastern University
Cameron Greene - Yale
Parker Harnett - Williams College
Mandy Moran - St. Olafs College
Cassandra Pantelis - Penn State
Victoria Rash - University of Texas, Dallas
Carolina Remond - University of Arkansas
Julia Saunders - Duke University
Angelina Xu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2024 GAR Graduates:
Mason Adams - Oklahoma State 2024
Emily Couture - Boston College 2024
Robert Dailey - Northeastern 2024
Ava Mortier - Barnard 2024
Nathaniel Redmond - Vanderbilt 2024
Emily Ren - NYU Stern 2024
Benjamin Taalman - Northwestern 2024
Ashley Thompson - Wichita State U: Honors College 2024

2023 GAR Graduates:
Ololade Abdulai - MIT 2023
Marcos Arias - Duke University 2023
Vivian Lu - Columbia University 2023
Sara Morice - Vanderbilt University 2023
David Nickel - Purdue University 2023
Kaitlyn Robertson - St. Louis University 2023
Karissa Varner - Texas A & M University 2023

2022 GAR Graduates:
Kyle Astleford - University of California 2022
Cicely Berzack - Georgetown University 2022
Nicholas Dauer - Ohio State 2022
Katherine L. Hall - University of South Carolina 2022
Nia Harris - New York University 2022
Jaimie Thomison - Miami University 2022
Julia Trudeau - Loyola Marymount University 2022

2021 GAR Graduates:
Sheryl Chen - University of Pennsylvania 2021
Danika Flemming - Arizona State University 2021
Katherine Hsu - University of Pennsylvania 2021
Marc Johnson - University of Notre Dame 2021
Kassandra Ogbodu - Northwestern University 2021
Kemunto Okindo - Duke University 2021
Matthew Signorotti - University of California 2021

2020 GAR Graduates:
Nathan Kabat - Benedictine College 2020
Mariela Pichardo - Brown University 2020
Grace Wickerson - Rice University 2020
Alec Jobbins - UC Berkeley 2020
Madison Frank - University of Pittsburgh 2020
William McMillian - Amherst College 2020
Michael Gustafson - Georgia Institute of Technology 2020

2019 GAR Graduates:
Michael Amoako - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019
Connor Chapkis - University of Southern California 2019
Lyndsey Franklin - University of Southern California 2019
Sydney Marcus - Northwestern University 2019
Anne Robertson - University of California - Berkeley 2019
Matthew Thomison - University of Kentucky 2019
David Tong - Rutgers - Congratulations to David for graduating in 2.5 years!

2018 GAR Graduates:
Hunter Lawrence - Carnegie Mellon University 2018
Christian Cordova - University of Texas at Austin 2018
Malavika Suresh - Carleton College 2018
Carsen Smith - Vanderbilt University 2018
Sean Trahan - University of Pennsylvania 2018
Benjamin Ellis - Georgetown University 2018
Jordan Gormaly - University of California, Davis 2018
Courtney Barton - Abilene Christian University 2018

2017 GAR Graduates:
Sofia Charania - Princeton University 2017
Andrew Chico - Caltech 2017
Rylan Edlin - Stanford University 2017
Devra Gelman - Boston University 2017
Julian Khaymovich - CUNY Macaulay Honors College 2017
Michael Maley - Washington University 2017
Matthew Wood - Brown University 2017

2016 GAR Graduates:
Jessy Garcia - Cornell University 2016
Lucinda Krahl - University of Notre Dame 2016
Neil Mehta - University of Miami 2016
Aaron Rios - Stanford 2016
Sadiki Saunders - University of Pennsylvania 2016
Leah Topper - Rice University 2016

2015 GAR Graduates:
Sarah Alexander - University of Pennsylvania 2015
Rani Hadla - University of the Pacific 2015
Breanna M. Helland - University of South Dakota 2015
Joseph Laseter - Princeton University 2015
Sarah McMillian - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
Han-wei Wu - Northwestern University 2015

2014 GAR Graduates:
Monica Devlin - Washington & Lee University 2014
Wilhemina Koomson - Princeton University 2014
Xinyi "Michelle" Lin - Harvard University 2014
Shelby Millar - Northwestern University 2014
Himalaya Mehta - University of Pennsylvania 2014
Anthony Palillo - Harvard University 2014

2013 GAR Graduates:
Avionna Baldwin - Duke University 2013
Sarah Brindle - Saint Joseph's University 2013
Douglas Chico - U.S. Naval Academy 2013
Courtney Colgan - Boston College 2013
Debbie Marian Yorpo de Lara - Loyola University of Chicago 2013
Kendra Moore - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 2013

2012 GAR Graduates:
Christopher Brathewaite - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
Jens E. Jorgenson - Wheaton College 2012
Jenna Kefeli - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
Arianna S. Klein - State University of New York at Stony Brook 2012
Dina Montemarano - University of Notre Dame 2012

2011 GAR Graduates:
Eddie Baurer - George Washington University 2011
Alexander Dolgonos - University of Pennsylvania 2011
Margarita Levin - University of Pennsylvania 2011
Anjalee Verma - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011

2010 GAR Graduates:
Molly Alig - Barnard College 2010
Jianan Hu - Johns Hopkins University 2010
Derek C. Song - Duke University 2010

2009 GAR Graduates:
Cristina Fernandez - Harvard University 2009
John B. Valantassis - Haverford College 2009

2007 GAR Graduate:
Alex Levin - Harvard University 2007


News
Big News!
Due to the ever increasing costs of a college education, the GAR Board has generously voted to increase the amount of our scholarship from a maximum of $50,000 to a maximum of $60,000 ($15,000 per year max).

Applications for students who will be high school seniors in 2025 will begin being accepted on September 18, 2025. Completed applications must be received no later than Thursday, February 19, 2026.

College scholarship money is available to offspring of those working in the financial services industry. Each GAR scholarship is awarded to bright, hardworking high school seniors who have a financial need.
Please read the requirements and fill out an application form. The Gordon Rich Foundation provided approximately $300,000 in college scholarships last year. We currently support 28 students in colleges across the country and have 107 alumni. Any questions please email info@gordonrich.org.

Our annual fundraising event will be held in NYC on Thursday, October 23, 2025.
Board members, current GAR scholars, GAR scholar graduates and many supporters are all invited. For details please contact info@gordonrich.org.

Contribute
If you would like to contribute to GAR, either with an endowment pledge or a one-time gift, click here for the payment and pledge form. Or you can contact us at info@gordonrich.org.

Requirements
In order to qualify for the GAR scholarship, parents and/or legal guardians of the student applying must have, or had, a career in the financial services industry. Click here for the definition of Financial Services and Master List of Companies.

 
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