2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients and Essays

Congratulations to the 56 most recent DSDI 2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients!

All awardees were sent an email on July 4th advising them of their award. If you applied for a Scholarship, please check your email as there are specific instructions to follow. If you are unable to locate the email, please contact the Chair at [email protected].

Each application includes an essay written in response to a writing prompt. Links to some of the winning essays follow.

This year’s writing prompt was:

Think about your Signer’s role in the Second Continental Congress as they helped draft the list of grievances against the King of Great Britain to rationalize the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Read through the list of grievances and discuss – How do you think your Signer felt at the time and do you think any of these rationalizations may have resonated with them personally? After the Declaration of Independence was signed and presented to the colonies, which of the grievances do you feel resonated most with the public? Are there any that the public may have ignored or felt did not impact them? Pick one of these grievances that resonates with you. If it has occurred or if it were to occur in contemporary society, how would it impact your behavior or the trajectory of your life?

Grace Barrett Essay

Ryane Farrell Essay

Cabell Pasco Essay

Pauline Singer Essay

John Witherspoon Essay

Scholarship recipients are listed by signer.

NameAncestor
Madison SissonAbraham Clark
Elizabeth BarrowArthur Middleton
Victoria BarrowArthur Middleton
Lucy CourtBenjamin Harrison V
Elizabeth ZakasBenjamin Harrison V
Richard EdmundsBenjamin Harrison V
Garnett EdmundsBenjamin Harrison V
Andrew EhlersBenjamin Harrison V
Thomas EhlersBenjamin Harrison V
Katherine WhiteCarter Braxton
Sean BowmanFrancis Lewis
Joseph FalconeGeorge Read
Jake BainbridgeJohn Hart
Justin BainbridgeJohn Hart
Grace BarrettJohn Hart
Emma BarrettJohn Hart
Hunter ClementsJohn Hart
Benjamin MayhewJohn Hart
Tyler MayhewJohn Hart
Rory WahligJohn Hart
Charles WahligJohn Hart
Zahra WalkerJohn Hart
Caroline BeecherJohn Morton
Charlotte BeecherJohn Morton
Katherine GleasonJohn Morton
Josh MortonJohn Morton
Lauren SperryJohn Morton
Reilly StrombergJohn Morton
Allison HubbardJohn Witherspoon
Theresa RamsayJohn Witherspoon
Isabella RamsayJohn Witherspoon
Clara RamsayJohn Witherspoon
John WitherspoonJohn Witherspoon
Caroline WitherspoonJohn Witherspoon
Seina DowgiewiczJosiah Bartlett
Sophia DavisLewis Morris
Thomas JohnsonOliver Wolcott
Ryane FarrellPhilip Livingston
Margaret LongPhilip Livingston
Andrew Harrison PeatrossPhilip Livingston
Kannon ZdimalPhilip Livingston
Peyton Elise GreshamRichard Henry Lee and Robert Morris
Brady GlynnRichard Stockton
Pauline SingerRichard Stockton
Griffin YandellRichard Stockton
Lucy MartinRobert Morris
Eliot PaynterRobert Treat Paine
Oliver McDermottRoger Sherman
Jonathan WaldmannRoger Sherman
Alexander McLaurineThomas Heyward Jr.
Thomas McNamaraThomas Heyward Jr.
Ethan BurkeThomas Nelson Jr.
Paige Nelson SwensenThomas Nelson Jr.
Stephanie NelsonThomas Nelson Jr.
Palmer Wrigley StrattonWilliam Floyd and John Morton Jr.
Cabell PascoWilliam Hooper

Would you like to apply for a scholarship? Visit the following places to learn more and contact us if you still have questions: