The Richard J. Schlimgen Memorial Scholarship
The Scholarship
The main purpose of the Richard J. Schlimgen Memorial Scholarship is to give students incentive to seek greater knowledge of leadership principles and skills, and to use that knowledge in the service of their school and community. It also holds as its purpose the recognition of students who have excelled in student leadership while exemplifying high ideals, and providing assistance for the continuation of their education. The recipient must have attended the Virginia Beach Leadership Workshop; criteria revolve around leadership, service, scholarship, citizenship, and creativity.
The current amount awarded each year for this scholarship is $2000.
The Legacy
The Richard Joseph Schlimgen Memorial Scholarship is named for a young man who was one of the finest leaders to pass through Virginia Beach City Public Schools. He was a 1980 graduate of First Colonial High School where he was president of the SCA. Among many other activities, he participated in the One-Act Play Festival and captained the soccer team. He attended Virginia Boys’ State and Presidential Classroom, was selected for the National Honor Society and The Virginian Pilot Scholastic Team, and was named “Outstanding Senior” while at First Colonial.
Richard Schlimgen was a student at the University of Virginia as a Rodman Scholar, attending on a four-year scholarship where he majored in computer science. At UVA, he co-chaired the university’s activities committee, coached youth soccer, and played club soccer and racquetball. He belonged to Zeta Psi Fraternity, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the Fraternity and Sorority Christian Fellowship.
Richard was a major contributor to the work of the Virginia Beach Leadership Workshop Staff for three years. He was a t-shirt designer, a playwright, a computer enthusiast, an accomplished sailor, an individual of great creativity, and a very warm and special person. In 1983, he died in a plane crash at the age of 20; each year since, this scholarship has been given in his memory to honor the accomplishments of another outstanding student leader in Virginia Beach.
Richard J. Schlimgen Scholarship Recipients
| Year | Recipients | School |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Jewell Lim | Bayside |
| 1984 | Matt Vester | First Colonial |
| 1985 | Clint Carroll | Kellam |
| 1986 | Scott Keeling | Cox |
| 1987 | Caddy Wood | Cox |
| 1988 | David Cooper | Bayside |
| 1989 | Ruth Damaso | Green Run |
| 1990 | Wayne Shackelford | First Colonial |
| 1991 | Tori Reinhold | Bayside |
| 1992 | Zach Long | Princess Anne |
| 1993 | Carrie Rhoads | Cox |
| 1994 | Mitzi Reinhold | Princess Anne |
| 1995 | Meg Buchanan | Cox |
| 1996 | Amy Kobelski | First Colonial |
| 1997 | Anthoney Lim | Tallwood |
| 1998 | Jen Allen | Kempsville |
| 1999 | Jeff Wu | Cox |
| 2000 | Amanda Logsdon | Cox |
| 2001 | Elizabeth Korbak | Ocean Lakes |
| 2002 | Molly Buchanan | Cox |
| 2003 | Allison Murphy | Ocean Lakes |
| 2004 | Missy Jenkins | Ocean Lakes |
| 2005 | Leslie Lehner | Salem |
| 2006 | Grace McGee | Kellam |
| 2007 | Ted Goldstein | Cox |
| 2008 | Auriel Johnson | Ocean Lakes |
| 2009 | Sheridan Fuller | Tallwood |
| 2010 | Ann Laurence Baumer | Cox |
| 2011 | Katharine Sadowski | First Colonial |
| 2012 | Andrew Stone | Green Run |
| 2013 | Hailey Sabol | Salem |
| 2014 | Evan Turner | Ocean Lakes |
| 2015 | Lukas Pietrzak | First Colonial |
| 2016 | Joshua Bensink | Kempsville |
| 2017 | Charlie Prince | Cox |
| 2018 | Abigail Ramsay | Bayside |
| 2019 | Andrea Pember | First Colonial |
| 2020 | Cheryll Caalim | Bayside |
| 2021 | Brooke Kent | Kempsville |
| 2022 | Aaron Arlanza | First Colonial |
| 2023 | Ainsley Shewbridge | Kellam |
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