The Sonia Daly Belcher Annual Scholarship
Past Recipients
2024 Scholarship Recipients
During her life, Sonia was committed to raising up Orthodox Christian leaders to serve Christ’s church. We remember her legacy and we honor two young servant-hearted leaders who remind us of Sonia’s deep love for God, her passion for serving others, and her courage and fortitude.
We wish to warmly congratulate Yvette Easton, an undergraduate student of Government and Modern Middle East Studies and NCAA Division 1 volleyball player at Harvard with a scholarship of $2,000. Yvette spent her summer studying abroad in Jordan working to increase female political participation and hopes to continue on to law school after Harvard in order to help families in the war-torn Middle East find safer and better lives. 
We are also honored to award a scholarship of $1,250 to Courtney Haubert, a graduate student working towards her Masters of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Courtney remarked, “With the spirit of love, all things can be made holy- even, and perhaps especially, scholarship.” She hopes to continue her academic studies and obtain her PhD in order to serve the Church.
We are certain these future servant-leaders will serve the Church with continued love and dedication, working dutifully in our Lord’s vineyard for years to come. May God grant them many, many years! We humbly thank you all for your support in honoring the life and legacy of Sonia Daly Belcher! 2023 Scholarship Recipients
The Sonia Daly Belcher Fund, with the generous support of our donors, is awarding three $1,000 scholarships in 2023. We wish to warmly congratulate our recipients.
Ephraim Mosher, a student at Middlesex Community College, is studying Social Work and serves many noble causes. He is actively involved in youth leadership through his archdiocese and the Cub Scouts.
We are certain these future servant-leaders will continue to use their hands, hearts, and minds to serve the body of Christ faithfully. May they continue to labor joyfully in the Lord’s vineyard for years to come. May God grant them many years!
We humbly thank you all for your support and your generosity in honoring the memory of Sonia Daly Belcher! 2022 Scholarship Recipients
In our third year of the Sonia Daly Belcher Fund, with the generous support of our donors, we are awarding three scholarships. We are certain these future servant-leaders will serve the Church with love and dedication, working dutifully in our Lord’s vineyard for years to come. May God grant them many years!
Our first recipient, Miruna Eynon, a sophomore at The New England Conservatory, is awarded $2,000. An accomplished cellist and chanter, Miruna shares her love of music with others, “Each time I perform, with my cello, I am bringing my faith into secular spaces. Each time I chant in church, I am praying to God…every effort I put into my ability as both a cellist and a chanter is an effort to be a better servant of God.” Her dedication to her college parish was noted by her priest, who remarked that she “represents the legacy of Sonia’s generosity and places that into witness and services of the Church.” Miruna is also a Theophany School graduate! 
We are also awarding two $1,000 scholarships this year. The first is to Katherine Panagakis, a sophomore at Wentworth Institute of Technology where she is studying Civil Engineering. She sees her studies as a vehicle to live out the virtues of faith, hope, love and wisdom and a chance to “improve civility in local, national, and global societies.”
Our final scholarship is awarded to Damianos Paschalides, who is starting his junior year at Hellenic College where he is a Religious Studies major and serves as the school’s ecclesiarch and who, “hopes to serve all with Christ’s love.”
2021 Scholarship Recipient
This year, we are honored and humbled to give a $2,500 scholarship in Sonia’s name to a worthy recipient, Nadia Ozone, who is attending Boston University for graduate studies in Global Marketing Management. As Nadia wrote, “I know that work is an opportunity to nurture the virtues and it is only one pillar in our lives, with Christ as the foundation of all of the other pillars. To ensure that I am living a life of generosity, service, and faith, I must work to strengthen my foundation in Christ…” We know that she will continue to serve the Church and others with love and dedication, working dutifully in our Lord’s vineyard for years to come. May God grant her many, many years!
2020 Scholarship Recipients
In this, our inaugural year of the Sonia Daly Belcher Fund, and thanks to the generous support of our donors, we are awarding two scholarships of $1,750 to two worthy recipients. We wish to warmly congratulate Markella Patitsas, a former teacher and now student at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts and Christopher Abdelahad, a seminarian at Saint Vladimir’s in Crestwood, New York. We are certain these future servant-leaders will serve the Church with love and dedication, working dutifully in our Lord’s vineyard for years to come. May God grant them many years!
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