ENA Community Scholarship Program

Now accepting applications for the Margaret McVicker and Tom White Scholarships. Applications are due by 5:00 PM, Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

ENA offers three annual scholarships in honor of Eastwood champions:

Margaret K. McVicker, born in 1919, lived her whole life in Eastwood in a house her father built. She graduated from Eastwood High School and raised her family in Eastwood. She was a founding board member of the Eastwood Neighborhood Association. After retirement she wrote two books on Eastwood (the Village Within the City of Syracuse) to preserve the history for posterity. She was considered the "Eastwood Historian" by many. She was responsible for the first Historical Marker for Eastwood at Sheridan Park. She passed away in 2019.

Tom White was a lifelong resident of Eastwood and dedicated employee of the City of Syracuse Parks and Recreation Department from 1983 until his retirement in 2016. He was a leader in the field, passionate for his work in advocating opportunities for recreation and dedicated his life to service on the behalf of others. He was a consummate volunteer, and was a mentor and coach to many, coaching CYO and EYP basketball and baseball and high school basketball. He was a dedicated member and historian to ENA and Bishop Grimes and SUNY Cortland alumni organizations. He was an enthusiastic booster for the creation of the East Woods Skate Plaza. White touched the lives of countless people in the community and is remembered for being positive and optimistic. He passed away in 2021 at the young age of 63.

Our first annual scholarship in memory of past ENA President Aaron Wood was awarded to the Henninger High School Cross Country team to support their trip to the fall 2023 Manhattan College Cross Country Invitational.