ACC provides 26 scholarships to high school seniors from throughout southeast Michigan

posted on: Jun 10, 2015

ACC is proud to announce that we provided 26 scholarships to high school seniors from throughout southeast Michigan at our 13th Annual Golf Outing & Scholarship Awards Dinner on June 2 at Shenandoah Country Club in West Bloomfield.  The funds raised at the event, through sponsorships, contributions and a raffle contest, benefited the organization’s Scholarship Awards, as well as Youth Programs.  Two hundred and fifty people were in attendance at this year’s event.

“Thank you to all of the co-chairs, sponsors, businesses and individuals who helped to make this Awards Dinner a success.  Because of their generosity, we had an outstanding turnout and were able to provide scholarships to a deserving group of dedicated students,” said Dr. Haifa Fakhouri, president and CEO of the Arab American and Chaldean Council.

Event co-chairs were: Faye Nelson, vice president of Public Affairs for DTE Energy and president of the DTE Energy Foundation; Sue Brueckman, Senior Vice President, Regional Manager Corporate Affairs and Chief of Staff, Huntington Bank; Ronia Kruse President and CEO, OpTech; and Milan Gandhi, Founder and CEO of Med-Share.

Scholarship recipients were presented with special tributes from Representative Klint Kesto. Recipients, and their high schools were:

• Amanda Jahshan – Henry Ford II High Schoo
• Asraa Ali – Fordson High School
• Brenda Kizy – Ferndale High School
• Calvin Jarbo – Warren Mott High School
• Chelsea Shamoon – Fitzgerald High School
• Christina Samaan – Sterling Heights High School
• Divan Putrus – West Bloomfield High School
• Farah AbouFakhr – Dearborn High School
• Haleemah Shajira – Salem High School
• Jamil Jomaa – Dearborn High School
• Jolie Habashy – Eisenhower High School
• Joseph Daoud – Warren Mott High School
• Joseph Nannoshi – Detroit Catholic Central
• Maranda Lossia – Waterford Mott High School
• Mary Matta – Crestwood High School
• Michael Arwashan – International Academy East
• Michael Manna – North Farmington High School
• Mohammad Harp – Fordson High School
• Namir Khalasawi – Ferndale High School
• Nicole Hermes – Lamphere High School
• Paul Kamash – West Bloomfield High School
• Peter Gayed – Fraser High School
• Sam Nasser  – Universal Academy
• Siham Saleh – Fordson High School
• Vincent Lirato – North Farmington High School
• Yassin Mohamed – Edsel Ford High School

Golf Tournament awards were also distributed to the men and women who were Closest to the Pin and had the Longest Drive.  The Tournament Champs was a team from DTE Energy, which included Jeff Lebrun, Ryan DeKimpe, Inex Chavez and Alicia Ramirez.