2021 MABEL FELTON MARBLE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Three distinguished recipients are honored by the Select Board
FAMILY PHOTO: The late Sylvia Marble and Ralph Perkins Marble

The Berlin Select Board is proud to announce the names of the three recipients of the 2021 Mabel Felton Marble Memorial Scholarship.

 

Katelyn Beirne

 

Tahanto Regional High School Class of 2021

Heading to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to study Computer Science

 

Lindsey Kunewich

 

Tahanto Regional High School Class of 2021

Heading to Endicott College to study within the Elementary Teacher Licensure Concentration

 

Kelcie Margaret McDonald

 

Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School Class of 2021

Heading to the University of Vermont to study English & Classics

 

Congratulations to all who are now added to the roster of distinguished recipients.

 

To qualify for the Mabel Marble Scholarship, applicants must be female graduating high school students residing in the Town of Berlin who are planning on continuing their education either at a college or vocational school.

 

The Select Board acknowledges Mabel’s granddaughter, Judith Kerr, and Mabel’s daughter in law, Sylvia Marble, whose generosity makes the scholarship possible. - Thank you!

 

**History of the Mabel Felton Marble Scholarship**

 

Mable Felton Marble was born on July 3, 1892. She was raised in Berlin and lived on Derby Road for much of her life. Mrs. Marble would often recall in conversation that she could not vote until after the Right to Vote was finally given to women in 1920 when she was 28 years old. It was an unusual thing for a woman to go to college at the turn of the century, and yet Mable attended Boston University, graduating in 1914. She went on to teach French and Latin while raising a family. She taught for a year in West Berlin in the one room school house of that time.

 

Mable married Ralph Perkins Marble and they had three children. It was her son, Ralph P. Marble Jr., who started the scholarship to honor his mother who felt education was so important for young women. The scholarship is now funded by Ralph Jr.’s widow, Sylvia Marble, and by Mabel Marble’s granddaughter, Judith Kerr (niece of Ralph Jr. & Sylvia Marble).

 

Since the inception of the scholarship in 1991, the Berlin Select Board has administered the scholarship which is awarded to high school graduating young women who plan to further their education.

 

The Select Board is honored to be part of the process of awarding the Mabel Felton Marble Scholarship to Berlin’s young women graduates.

So voted this 1st day of June, 2021 by the BERLIN SELECT BOARD

Margaret Stone

R. Scott Hawkins

Christine Keefe