Allen Harim awards scholarships
Allen Harim recently presented five students with the Allen Harim Legacy Scholarship, which provides a $2,500 financial award for college. The scholarship was created last year when the company announced it would be using savings from a newly installed solar project to create the program. Children of employees and contract growers wanting to attend college or trade schools were eligible to apply for the funds.
“We are pleased with this year’s award recipients, and look forward to creating a legacy that will pay dividends for the families of our employees and growers for generations to come,” said President and CEO Joe Moran.
The scholarships are being administered through the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore. Students and their families attended a lunch reception at Allen Harim’s corporate headquarters.
This year’s winners are Alyssa Givens of Laurel; Fantasy Hopkins of Bridgeville; Diana Ramirez-Irineo of Georgetown; Jacob Haynes of Calhoun, Ga.; and Joshua Tucker of Boonville, N.C.
Givens’ parents Glen and Jennifer Givens own Five Points Farm, a contract poultry grower for Allen Harim. Alyssa will be attending the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in the fall. She graduated from Laurel High School where she served as valedictorian. She hopes to become a doctor and return to her hometown to help reduce the physician shortage in Sussex County.
Ramirez-Irineo’s mother Maria Quintanar has worked for Allen Harim since 2011 on the production line. She is currently a line leader on the leg cut-up line. Diana plans to attend the University of Delaware in the fall, having graduated with an associate’s degree from Delaware Tech in May. She hopes to pursue a career as an outreach coordinator working closely with the Latino community. Her experience growing up as a first-generation Latina student has inspired her to want to help other students succeed.
Hopkins’ mother Michelle Horne has worked at Allen Harim in the sourcing department at corporate headquarters since 2008. Fantasy graduated from Sussex Technical High School last year and will be attending her second year at the University of Delaware. She is majoring in exercise science, with hopes of one day going on to become a doctor.
Tucker’s father Charles Tucker has worked in the breeder department in Liberty, N.C., since 2010. In the fall, Joshua will be a senior at Appalachian State University where he is studying business management.
Haynes’ father, Patrick Haynes, has been breeder manager in Liberty, N.C., since 2014. Jacob is planning to attend Western Carolina University in the honors program.
