Paul Coopersmith in Memory of Frank DeLorenzo Memorial Fund

The Frank DeLorenzo Memorial Scholarship Fund celebrates the life of Frank DeLorenzo, who, to my mind, was the most creative member of the Leonia High School Class of 1964. His playful illustrations enlivened the yearbook and The Leonian. While a fifth-grader at Anna C Scott elementary school, Frankie wrote what would soon become the school’s official song—the same uplifting words and melody that are still sung at ACS, over sixty years later. His wide-ranging artistic talents, coupled with an inimitable, buoyantly mischievous sense of humor, made him an inspiration to all who knew him. It is Frankie’s spirit, his love of life as well as his aesthetic agility, that we are honoring with this award, to be given on an annual basis to the LHS senior who best demonstrates talent and ambition as an artist, musician, or writer.

– Paul Coopersmith, LHS Class of 1964

The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s Paul Coopersmith in Memory of Frank DeLorenzo Memorial Fund awarded a grant of $3,000 to Leonia High High School for a graduating senior seeking to pursue a college education in the performing or visual arts. Congratulations to Audrey Sugiaman on being named the Fund’s seventh recipient.  She plans to attend Montclair State University and study music education.