May 10, 2020

Hotelier Rosen awards scholarships to 3 future Rollins students (2018)

Hotelier Harris Rosen has awarded scholarships to three future Rollins students from low-income neighborhoods (Sentinel file)

By Annie Martin
Orlando Sentinel
MAY 10, 2018, 12:05 PM

Three high school seniors from low-income Orange County neighborhoods have been awarded scholarships to attend Rollins College from Orlando
hotelier Harris Rosen.

Tylyiah Andrews and Donayja Gates, who will graduate from Jones High later this month, and Samijah Butler, who will receive her diploma from Dr.
Phillips High, are the first recipients of the scholarship.

Rosen said in November he’d award scholarships to three students from the Parramore and Tangelo Park neighborhoods each year starting this fall to
attend Rollins College, a private liberal-arts school in Winter Park.

The scholarships will cover tuition, room and board — valued at more than $60,000 annually — after federal, state and college financial aid options are
exhausted.

All three of this year’s recipients are involved in a variety of sports and other activities on their school campuses, according to Rollins.

Andrews is captain of the softball team and a varsity volleyball player. She recently received the Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year award from her local
club and plans to study computer science at Rollins. Gates is in the medical magnet program at Jones and hopes to pursue a career in cognitive behavioral
therapy. She’s also a member of the National Honor Society and a pitcher on the softball team. Butler plays on the varsity basketball team and the flag
football team at Dr. Phillips. She also plays the piano and drums.

Rosen has provided college scholarships and education programs to students in struggling neighborhoods for years. Students from Parramore and
Tangelo Park were already eligible for full scholarships from Rosen, at public universities, colleges and trade schools.

Hotelier Harris Rosen has awarded scholarships to three future Rollins students from low-income neighborhoods (Sentinel file)
He started the Tangelo Park program, which also includes preschool, parenting programs and mentoring, in 1994. Since then, high school graduation rates
in Tangelo Park have increased from 55 percent to nearly 100 percent, and more than 280 young adults have graduated from college, according to the
Harris Rosen Foundation.

Rosen has replicated the Tangelo Park program in Parramore for students who live in the attendance zone for the OCPS Academic Center for Excellence, a
school for children in preschool through eighth grade that opened in August.

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