Sarah Skelley

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“I come from a very isolated area and it was beneficial to meet other students from other areas of the country and from different styles of life.”

  • Alumni of: 2006 College Scholarship Program
  • Resides: Cumberland, MD
  • Hometown: Cumberland
  • Age: 24

Biography

For Sarah Skelley, her first summer program as a Young Scholar made all the difference. She called it “a healthy environment for the mind,” a meeting of peers who were “interested and active in learning.” And she came away with some tangible signs of what she wanted to do with her life. During a seminar, she began to learn Latin “and that started my deep interest in languages, particularly classical and ancient.” Today, she’s aiming to continue that language immersion and eventually become a university teacher.

Though circumstances created several financial and personal hurdles, Sarah has proven herself “an exceptional young woman with varied interests” who is “fearless as she stretches her intellectual base,” in the words of her high school English teacher Mary Jane O’Rourke. In that spirit, Sarah often ventures beyond her own turf, including a summer trip to Europe two years ago, during which she learned history and politics and, she says, saw “the world beyond the safe boundaries of our country.”

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