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1 6 P E R S P E C T I V E | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0 N E W S ADG - Richard Stiles Scholarship Recipients B Y W. R I C K N I C H O L , C O M M I T T E E C H A I R This year, the ADG Board of Directors has approved five 2,000 Scholarships to ualifying and deserving students attending an accredited college or university. The Richard Stiles Scholarship is open to all ADG members in good standing, along with their spouses, children and dependents. Applicants are evaluated on their academic records, financial need, community service, school participation, letters of recommendation and a short essay on why they deserve the award. I am honored to announce the winners for the 20202021 academic year on behalf of the ADG Scholarship Committee. Faithis the daughter of David J. Negron Jr., Senior Illustrator. Faith will be entering her sophomore year working toward a music businesss degree at Berklee College of Music, where she has achieved a 4.0 GPA in her freshman year. Known to be an academically and artistically inclined student, Faith graduated from alley Christian School with a 4.2 GPA while Lucas is the son of Charles M. Lagola, Production Designer. Lucas will be continuing his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in environmental policy and planning. Lucas graduated from irginia Tech in 2019 earning a .2 GPA and a BS in sustainable materials in three years. Lucas was a scholar-athlete at Agoura High School, playing lacrosse and serving as varsity team captain, as well as a youth lacrosse coach. assisting her father in his freelance business in her free time. She also worked for a floral design firm, both in an administrative role and on the creative side. Faith will be pursuing a career in the film industry as a music supervisor. While in high school, Faith "fell in love with the process behind what music supervisors do for films on the creative and business side of the process." Rest assured, Faith's already successful college career will continue to crescendo at Berklee. He put his environmental considerations to work volunteering for Heal the Bay and Environment California, personally raising over 10,000 in donations for sustainability initiatives. He is a "reliable and diligent worker that plans on positively impacting the environmental policymaking process" and "to make positive and impactful changes to resource management initiatives and policy implementation at both the community and nationwide levels." We wish Lucas continued success in his academic endeavors at Hopkins and on into his career. Faith Negron Lucas Lagola