First County Bank Foundation recently announced the 2023 recipients of the Richard E. Taber Citizenship Award scholarships, its annual award program honoring Fairfield County high school students who consistently demonstrate good citizenship at school, at home and in the community.
The program is designed to recognize and encourage young people who are honest, hardworking and helpful. Each year the Bank Foundation accepts student applications from January to the end of April. The award, named after Richard E. Taber who retired as chairman and CEO of First County Bank in March 2011, is in recognition of Taber”™s 40-plus-year career at the bank and innumerable contributions to the community.
Each of the following students were chosen to receive the $5,000 Richard E. Taber Citizenship Award scholarship: Stephanie Chang of Riverside and Greenwich High School will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in computation and cognition; Eleanor Jacobs of Fairfield and Fairfield Warde High School will attend New York University, majoring in English; and Anastasios Panagiotidis of Norwalk attended Norwalk High School and will attend the University of Connecticut, majoring in business.
“This year, we were especially impressed by the level of academics, leadership and community volunteerism of the Richard E. Taber Citizenship Award applicants,” said Robert J. Granata, chairman and CEO, First County Bank and President, First County Bank Foundation.
Established in 2001 in honor of the bank”™s 150th anniversary, First County Bank Foundation was created to distribute funds annually to nonprofit organizations that support community and economic development, affordable housing and programs that support quality of life and educational enrichment for children and families.
