Press Releases

Westlawn Receives Largest Scholarship Grant in its 80 Year History
The Kathy & Jerry Wood Foundation Provide Generous Scholarship Support
The Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology is pleased to announce the most substantial grant and scholarship program in its 80 year history.  According to the Westlawn’s Director, Dave Gerr, for qualifying students, the Kathy and Jerry Wood Scholarship Fund could reduce tuition rates for qualifying students to levels not seen since the early1980s.  (more...)

Wood Foundation Provides Grant to Establish Del Easton Alternative School in Williston, ND
Sallie Hamrick, trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, provided a check today for $137,000.00 to Del Easton Alternative School.  The alternative high school will offer an optional setting and programming for students to earn a high school diploma instead of being in a traditional high school program, thereby reducing the number of dropouts. (more...)

Wood Foundation Helps Support New Health Sciences Institute at Anne Arundel Medical Center
Sallie Hamrick, trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, will contribute $500,000 over five years for the development of the Health Sciences Institute at Anne Arundel Medical Center.  The Institute will serve as a virtual classroom to provide real-time instruction and seminars by remotely linking scientists and specialists with resident and student physicians and nurses.(more...)

Wood Foundation Establishes Scholarship Fund
At The Summit School
Sallie Hamrick, trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, today provided a check for $127,447.00 to The Summit School scholarship fund.  The Summit School teaches bright children in grades 1-8 who have dyslexia or other learning differences. (more...)

Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation awards
$100,000 gift to Gibson Island Country School
This gift, presented by Sallie Hamrick, trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, will be used during the 2008-2009 school year to establish a needs-based scholarship fund for deserving students. (more...)

Wood Foundation Awards Grant to St. John’s College
Sallie Hamrick, trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, today announced a grant of $50,000.00 to St. John’s College in Annapolis. The grant will help support the Friends of St. John’s Jeff Bishop Memorial Scholarship Fund for Maryland Students. (more...)

Wood Foundation Supports Boys and Girls Clubs
Reginald Broddie of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County recently accepted a check for $100,000.00 from the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation. The check represents a grant from the Foundation to support the work of the Clubs. (more...)

Wood Foundation Establishes Scholarships at Prince George’s Community College 
Brenda Mitchell, Executive Director of the Prince George’s Community College Foundation recently accepted a check for $95,200.00 from Sallie Hamrick, President and Trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation, to establish the Kathy and Jerry Wood Fund at the Community College. The purpose of the fund... (more...)

Wood Foundation donates $52,000 to community college
A foundation set up by the late founders of the Annapolis boat shows has awarded its first grant as part of a mission to give young people a chance to attend college. (more...)

Wood Foundation Establishes Veterinary Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania
Speaking today from her Eastport office, Sallie Hamrick, Trustee of the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation announced the award of $196,450.00 to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. (more...)