Kimberly Clark and Sonny Williams awarded San Yeh scholarships
The San Yeh Charity Foundation awarded two $2,000 scholarships recently to a TAX employee and the son of another. Joy Yeh, TAX’s Chief Administrative Officer, created the foundation in honor of her late father.
The two winners this year are Kimberly Clark, a Contact Center trainer in Danville, and Sonny Williams, the son of Anita Williams, a Field Agent in Collections. The foundation awards the scholarships each year to two students who embody Mr. Yeh’s most valued traits: sincerity, honesty and integrity. The criteria that help determine the winners are the school grade point average, community services, other extracurricular activities and financial need.
“I have accumulated thousands of dollars in student loans and this scholarship really helps ease the burden,” said Clark, a mother of three. She has a GPA of 3.56 and is closing in on a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a concentration in legal studies. “I will graduate with honors in December.”
“Receiving this scholarship is such an honor and one of the proudest moments of my life. I am so very thankful to the San Yeh Charity Foundation,” she said.
Clark is considering which of three master programs to pursue: psychology/industrial-organizational psychology, instructional design and technology, or legal studies.
Williams is finishing his senior year at Franklin County High School with a GPA of 3.88. He is a member of the chess team, plays soccer, belongs to the Foreign Language Club, and the Franklin County 4-H Club.
“This scholarship is a means of supporting my family in payment for my college education,” said Williams, who plans to study physics at Roanoke College.
“My aspiration is to become a biotechnical engineer so I can help people,” he said. “This scholarship means that I can put less strain on my parents for support and am honored to have been awarded it.”
2015 Recipients
Three students received the San Yeh Charity and Education Scholarship this year: Isaiah Ham, Javel Jefferson, and Domantas Neverauskas. Although each student is in a different phase of his education, they've all shown great academic prowess and promising futures. The board members are incredibly impressed with these students' accomplishments and are thrilled the foundation can support them in their journey. Each scholarship winner received $2,000 to help fund their continued educational pursuits.
Ham is starting his fourth year at VCU in the fall as an education major and will transfer to VCU's accelerated Masters of Teaching program in May 2016. He finished the year with a 3.8 cumulative GPA while working at TAX to help pay for college. After graduating, he hopes to teach at a Virginia middle school before ultimately pursuing a Masters of Educational Leadership to become a principal.
For the past three summers, Ham worked as a camp counselor for the YMCA. This summer he'll be working at a school in New Jersey to get firsthand experience with teaching. Jefferson recently graduated from Varina High School in the top five of his class with a 4.0 GPA. He'll attend Randolph Macon College in the fall, where he plans to pursue a degree in accounting. He loved his math, calculus, and accounting classes in high school and is excited to dig deeper into the subject at Randolph Macon.
Domantas Neverauskas intends to major in business at VCU. To save money for his college tuition, he has been working twenty to thirty hours a week at Friendly's. His ultimate career goal is to become a personal financial advisor.
Past Recipients
Kevin Lew, UC Davis
Fall 2011
Spring 2012
Fall 2013
Rebecca Lee, George Mason University
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Andrew Williams, Roanoke College
Fall 2014