Rebecca Harmon

Dear Mr. Pat Costello,

Thank you very much for your generosity in funding the Costello Insurance Youth Scholarship of which I am a recipient this year. I am so excited to have received this! I am 16yrs. old and live in Southern New Hampshire and am going to be a Junior in high school in the fall. I love sports and am on the ski team at school where I race and also play goalie for the lacrosse team and was recently awarded “Player of the Year”. I also love to fly gliders! I started taking lessons in August of 2017 at the Franconia, NH airport in the White Mountains and belong to the Franconia Soaring Club. I spend as many weekends as possible from May thru September taking lessons and helping out. There is not one second that I don’t absolutely love while I am at the airport. Last week I made it to sixty glider flights which was very exciting!

I have big goals this summer when it comes to gliding! I hope to pass the FAA knowledge exam and then get my private pilot’s license. Last September, at the age of fifteen, I soloed for the first time in a glider and hopefully within the next year I will be a rated glider pilot!

Thank you, again for your generosity and support. This scholarship will help me pay for tows and lessons this summer and enable me to pursue my goals and dream of becoming a pilot!

Respectfully,

Rebecca Harmon
Progress/Achievement: Solo SGS 2-33A
Date:9/15/2018
Franconia Soaring Association

Sinead Nichols

Dear Mr Costello,

Thank you for the opportunity to expand my career. I am grateful for receiving the Costello Youth Scholarship and will use it to achieve my goals of becoming a glider pilot.

It was a nice surprise to be given the scholarship at the pilots meeting in Moriarty, New Mexico, during the 1-26 Championships, before going out to the grid to launch gliders. I have been learning a lot from participating in the competition. I’ve met great people from all over the United States and appreciate all their support. I have had the opportunity to lead the launches from the grid and have fun while doing so.

I will strive to keep doing what I have been doing and this scholarship will help tremendously.

Thank you again for funding the scholarship and hope to continue flying for many years to come.

Sincerely,

Sinead Nichols
Progress/Achievement: Glider solo
Date: Sept 2018
White Sands Soaring Association