Emilia had been raising her family in Hopewell, Virginia, and initially assumed private schools were out of reach for Hispanic families like hers. That changed when she heard about scholarship opportunities for Latino students during a Mass one Sunday morning. “It was like a light shining on our family,” Emilia recalled. Emilia moved her family…
During more than 30 years as a computer scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, Joseph tackled some of the agency’s most complex computational challenges. Now he is investing in something equally enduring: the future of Catholic education. A lifelong Catholic, Joseph and his wife, Kathryn, chose Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic School in Newport…
Vince moved to Danville in 1981 to teach accounting and help build Averett University’s accounting program, drawing on six years of experience at an international CPA firm. He enrolled his oldest son in first grade at Sacred Heart Catholic School that same year. All four of his children eventually attended school, and years later, so…
The answer came through the McMahon Parater Scholarship Foundation—a gift, as Karla describes it, that made everything possible for her sons Julian and Nicolas. “It is really a blessing,” she says simply. Before finding Saint Benedict, Karla had spent years searching for the right environment that aligned with her faith and values. Having grown up…
