The Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida (“JCOBAFL “) has established 11 annual Scholarship for Academically gifted and socio-economically disadvantaged students attending our Alma mater. The Scholarships are awarded at the JCOBAFL Griffin Awards Breakfast in the name of Alumni who have excelled in each respective discipline. The awards are focused on currently matriculated students who aspire to careers in the disciplines for whom they are named. The recognized disciplines include, inter alia, Jounalism, theatre, medicine, law, business, and engineering. Accompanying the awards is a monetized disbursement aimed at defraying the attendant costs associated with pursuing the respective delineated discipline. Each Scholarship would be in an approximate amount of J$40,368.
The annual Griffin Award Scholarship Breakfast is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The next Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida Annual Griffin Awards Breakfast will be on February 9th, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Woodlands Country Club 4600 Woodlands Boulevard, Tamarac, FL 33319. Entertainment at the event will include internationally acclaimed saxaphonist Mark Bunney; Jamaican Tenor extraordinaire Steve Higgins; multitalented percussionist Cornell Burton will be a Special Guest at the event. For more information see – http://jcobafl.org/
The awardees will be announced at the breakfast
The following are the scholarships for 2019:
Dr. Jason Scott Hamilton Engineering/ Robotics Scholarship 2019
Dr. Donald Dixon Science/Medical Scholarship 2019
Dr. Paul Kahn Science/Medical Scholarship 2019
Louis Hoyes Law/Humanities Scholarship 2019
Karl Marshall Business/Accounting Scholarship 2019
Danny Williams Business/Accounting Scholarship 2019
Steve Epstein Business/Accounting Scholarship 2019
Hugh Osborne Business/Accounting Scholarship 2019
Basil Bernard Business/Accounting Scholarship 2019
Ricky McCalla Journalism/Education/Theatre & Visual Arts Scholarship 2019
Franz Hall Journalism/Education/Theatre & Visual Arts Scholarship 2019
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ABOUT THE JAMAICA COLLEGE OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA
The Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida established in 2004 as a 501(c) (3). The Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida is committed to uphold the traditions of excellence of Jamaica College as one of the foremost educational institution in the country of Jamaica and to support the school in the development of its students.
