ACGA Member Scholarship Winners Announced

The winners of this year’s ACGA member scholarship competition are as follows:

The $300 Beginner Level award goes to Deborah Beach, who will use her prize to attend this year’s Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week in Banner Elk, North Carolina.

Debbi has been studying Gaelic for a little more than a year and has just completed a nine-month beginner course through the Atlantic Gaelic Academy. She is looking forward to being surrounded by Gaelic.

Second place at the beginner level goes to Jeff Burton and third place to Anna Bruce.

The $500 Intermediate Level award goes to John Grimaldi, who will also attend the Grandfather Mountain week. This will be the third year at Grandfather Mountain for John, also known as the Kilted Juggler. You have to see it to believe it!

An Phillips and Amy Johnson tied for second place at the intermediate level and Ken McCormick came in third.

The $1000 Advanced Level award goes to Jeanne Pendergast. Jeanne has used part of her award to attend this year’s Féis Shiàtail and will use the rest to travel to Cape Breton in August for a week at the Gaelic College.

Sharon Kestrel took second place at the advanced level.

Eleven people took part in the ACGA member scholarship competition this year, and all put in many hours of work on their entries. Meal ur naidheachd a h-uile duine!

Kathleen Reddy of Halifax, Nova Scotia, prepared this year’s translation exercises and acted as adjudicator for the competition. For anyone who would like to have a go at them after the fact (and without adjudication or comments), the exercises Kathleen prepared for each competition level are available for download on the "Financial Aid" page under "Member Scholarships."