{"id":8496,"date":"2013-12-11T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:09:48","slug":"critical-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"Critical impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/p9-diIonno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8499\" alt=\"Stephanie DiIonno \u201915 is the most recent recipient of the Lucretia Brown Smith \u201940 Scholarship.  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/p9-diIonno-300x247.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/p9-diIonno-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/p9-diIonno.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie DiIonno \u201915 is the most recent recipient of the Lucretia Brown Smith \u201940 Scholarship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Junior <strong>Stephanie DiIonno<\/strong> enjoys being involved with TCNJ\u2019s Teachers of Young Children Association, a student-run organization that, among other things, spearheads school supply drives and provides tutoring services to local schoolchildren. Recently though, it was DiIonno who found herself on the receiving end of a stranger\u2019s benevolence when a series of events left her with no way to pay her semester\u2019s tuition\u2014and facing the prospect of having to withdraw from school.<\/p>\n<p>DiIonno is the most recent recipient of the <strong>Lucretia Brown Smith \u201940<\/strong> Scholarship Fund, an award established from a bequest made by a former teacher who wanted to give something back to students in TCNJ\u2019s School of Education. In consultation with Smith\u2019s family, the College used the gift to create a fund that provides one-time emergency scholarship assistance to education majors facing financial crises that prevent them from continuing their studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe College is doing a great job administrating this scholarship fund,\u201d <strong>Richard L. Smith \u201967<\/strong>, Lucretia\u2019s son and administrator of her estate, said. \u201cMom was always very proud to be a teacher, and [the College] is carrying out her desire to support deserving students in the teaching profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Smith\u2019s gift, DiIonno remained enrolled and is continuing to work toward dual degrees in elementary education and psychology. Her career goal is to work as an elementary school counselor. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get this type of an educational experience anywhere else, and I couldn\u2019t have remained at TCNJ without this scholarship,\u201d DiIonno said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she wrote Richard a note of thanks. \u201cI told him every opportunity I have this semester, and every memory I make, is because of his mother\u2019s generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucretia Brown Smith \u201940 Scholarship Fund helps education majors facing financial crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-campus","category-winter-2013"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}