MARY IMMACULATE SECONDARY SCHOOL in Lisdoonvarna have announced the winners of the inaugural annual Brody Varna Senior Cycle Award (BVSCA).
Fifth year students Ella Brody and Matthew Irwin were chosen as the winners having met the requirements focusing on care, compassion and academic achievement during their time at the North Clare school.
All students interested in the BVSCA had to complete an application which was reviewed by school administrators as well as the Bartlett family before the selection process was finalised.
The Brody Varna Senior Cycle Award (BVSCA) was created in memory of Brody Varna Bartlett to help with the technological needs of students attending Mary Immaculate Secondary School, as they embark into their Senior Cycle at the school.
Jon and Julie Bartlett donated the technology gifts to students. Now residing in Boston,
Massachusetts the Bartletts were married at Ballintubber Abbey in Co Mayo but while honeymooning in Ireland, they became fond of Doolin and Lisdoonvarna.
In the following years unfortunately their son Brody Varna (short for Lisdoonvarna), was killed in a car accident and the family has chosen to memorialize Brody with this gift. The family is pleased to have found Mary Immaculate as the beneficiary school, and feel the school’s CEIST core values meet with the intentions of the Bartlett family gift.
