New MCCF scholarship funds offer more opportunities for students

Several new scholarship funds were established this past year at the Mckean County Community Foundation (MCCF). MCCF offers donors the opportunity to create funds to make their own philanthropic impact in the community. Donors can choose from a variety of fund types including scholarship, donor advised, designated, and agency endowment. MCCF administers a total of 56 scholarship funds in Mckean County. These seven scholarships funds are among those newly created in 2023-24.

The Staff Sgt. Carl Enis Military Scholarship Fund honors Carl Enis who died at the age of thirty-one in a helicopter incident on the Syrian Iraq border and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. With generational ties to the Mckean County area, Enis visited family often and was passionate about the outdoors in Pennsylvania. After college he enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Pararescueman, an Elite team of Guardian Angel Airmen. He lived by the Pararescue Creed: “These things we do, that others may live.” This scholarship honoring his memory will be awarded to a high school senior or adult learner involved in the military.

The Kelley Hritz Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to honor the memory of Kelley (Musselman)

Hritz. Kelley moved to St. Marys with her husband and son after graduating from high school in New Paris, and the Pittsburgh Technical Institute with a degree in Graphic Design. During her years in St. Marys, she worked in many areas of the community. But as an artist at heart, she loved music, theater, poetry, drawing and painting. Kelley’s love for the arts will live on through this scholarship, helping future artists to create amazing and beautiful things.

The Andrew Pingie Memorial Scholarship Fund was started in Andrew’s memory by his two daughters, Faith and Sarah, after his passing from glioblastoma brain cancer. Known for his gift of gab, quick wit, and humor, he was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who needed it. He was a self-taught fabricator of wrought iron

• Mount Jewett Volunteer Fire Department, Mount Jewett – $13,256.07.

• Otto Township Volunteer Fire Department, Duke Center – $13,061.55.

• Port Area Ambulance

Service Inc., Port Allegany – $10,000.

• Rew Volunteer Fire Department, Rew – $13,450.59.

• Smethport Fire Department Inc., Smethport – $13,839.63. Potter County

• Austin Volunteer Fire Department, Austin – $15,000 for EMS

operations; $15,006.77 for fire company operations.

• Coudersport Volunteer Ambulance Association, Coudersport – $15,000.

• Coudersport Volunteer Fire Department, Coudersport – $15,784.85.

• Gale Hose Company No. 1 Inc., Galeton

– $15,000 for EMS services.

• Genesee Volunteer Fire Department Inc., Genesee – $15,000 for EMS operations; $13,061.55 for fire company operations.

• Germania Fire Company, Galeton – $13,061.55.

• Goodyear Hose Company No. 1 Inc.,

Galeton – $13,645.11.

• Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Company, Harrison Valley – $14,617.72.

• Kettle Creek Ambulance Association, Cross Fork – $4,853.

• Kettle Creek Hose Company No. 1, Cross Fork – $13,061.55.

• Roulette Chemical Engine No. 1 Inc., Roulette

– $15,000 for EMS operations; $13,645.11 for fire company operations.

• Shinglehouse Volunteer Fire Department, Shinglehouse – $13,645.11.

• Tri-town Ambulance Association Inc. – $15,000.

• Tri-town Fire Company, Ulysses – $14,617.72.