All recipients of the unprecedented “Mayor Marty Small, Sr. Scholarship,” which was announced in May, have been selected. City of Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, Sr., during a news conference Tuesday morning held at the Atlantic City High School Library, formally announced some of the 100 Atlantic City residents who received this historic scholarship.

 

 

The first 50 scholarships of $10,000 each ($5,000 per semester this Fall and next Spring) went to current Atlantic City High School seniors who live in Atlantic City and will be graduating tomorrow. An additional 50 scholarships of $10,000 each ($5,000 per semester) went to incoming sophomores, juniors and seniors currently in college who graduated from Atlantic City High School and reside in Atlantic City. The high school seniors were notified of their selection last night by Mayor Small, and were in attendance for this morning’s news conference. The college students who received a scholarship were notified by Mayor Small following this morning’s news conference.

 

“We had a great response from students interested in the scholarship, and it ended up being an extremely competitive process,” said Mayor Small. “These students have high aspirations, and their reactions when I called them to let them know they are getting this money were priceless. I told the scholarship recipients ‘if you dream it and believe it, you can achieve it.’ You hear a lot of people talking about being for the kids, but the Small Administration puts its money where its mouth is and delivers.”