(Oct. 2024) The Allegany County Area Foundation’s (ACAF) newest scholarship, the Fillmore Central School (FCS) Alumni Scholarship, has come about through the generosity of the FCS classes of 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 and the creative thinking of FCS science teacher Jarrett Vosburg.
An FCS graduate, frequent class advisor, and himself the recipient of ACAF’s scholarships for his studies at SUNY Geneseo, Vosburg worked with class and school leadership to establish the fund, which is composed of unused class gift funds and resulted in an endowment large enough to provide an annual scholarship of $500. The first award will be made in spring 2025 for the 2025 - 2026 academic year.
The scholarship will be open to Fillmore graduates or seniors who’ve contributed to the FCS community in academics and extracurriculars, and has a parent, guardian or grandparent that attended Fillmore Central School. This criterion recognizes the importance of local graduates who choose to remain in the area to work and raise families. “Western New York, and Allegany County in particular, can get a bad reputation in terms of the opportunity it affords to its young people,” Vosburg notes. “In reality, this area has so much to offer in terms of its natural resources, educational institutions, infrastructure, agricultural investments, and even manufacturing opportunities.”
