SanCap Lions Announces Winners of Francis Bailey Scholarship

provided to Santiva Chronicle

Francis Bailey was one of the founders of the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club. He initiated an endowment fund to provide scholarships for post-secondary education for students who live or work on Sanibel or whose parents do. The Lions are proud to announce that the winners of scholarships for the 2020 – 2021 school year are Daisy Arensman, Suzanna DeCosta and Zach Farst.

Daisy Arensman, a graduate of Fort Myers High School, will be a freshman at the University of Florida and plans to major in Biology. Suzanna DeCosta will be a junior at Rollins College where she is pursuing a degree in English. Zachary Farst, a graduate of Cypress Lake High School, will be freshman at Niagara University and plans to major in Criminal Juistice.

The members of the Lions Club are pleased that we can provide some financial assistance to these outstanding students. We wish all three success in their education and their future career.

The Sanibel Captiva Lions Club has been serving the Sanibel and Captiva Communities for over 5o years. While the Lions Club is most known for their effort to eliminate preventable blindness, the club serves citizens of the Islands and greater Southwest Florida in a variety of ways. The local club is part of Lions Club International, the larges service organization in the world with over 1.4 million members in chapters in over 200 countries.

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