NEWS 2021
Scholarship for Up to 4 Years of Tuition Awarded to First Generation American
July 8, 2021
Greater Pike Community Foundation is pleased to announce Delaware Valley High School student Yoshi Sumitomo has received the first award from The Reggie Cheong-Leen & Peter Spielhagen Scholarship Fund. Yoshi will use the grant of up to four years of full tuition to attend Penn State University and major in computer science.
The fund was established at Greater Pike by Reggie Cheong-Leen to grant a scholarship to a Delaware Valley High School senior with demonstrated financial need and academic excellence whose parents were immigrants to the United States and who is planning to attend an accredited trade school, college or university.
“The greatest pleasure I have at this stage in my life is to be able to be of service to somebody I can help,” Cheong-Leen said. The fund has deep personal significance to him since he and husband Peter Spielhagen, who passed away in 2019, were both immigrants to the United States.
Yoshi is a member of several student honor societies and was on the high school varsity volleyball and soccer teams. “I’m really grateful and hope I can live up to expectations,” he said. Acknowledging there were other students who qualified, Yoshi added, “I feel like I’ve used up a life’s worth of luck and I hope I will use this opportunity to get a degree and support my family.”
Online donations to the Reggie Cheong-Leen & Peter Spielhagen Fund at Greater Pike Community Foundation can be made here.
Greater Pike helps individuals, families and local businesses to provide a permanent and personal way to give back to the community. For more information on establishing a fund, contact Jenni Hamill, Executive Director at (570) 832-4686, jennihamill@greaterpike.org, or visit www.greaterpike.org and Facebook.com/GreaterPike.