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Posted May 22, 2025 01:10pm
(La Porte County, IN) – Two LaPorte County high school seniors with goals to work in healthcare have received Franciscan Health Michigan City Medical Staff Memorial Scholarships to assist with their post-secondary educations.
Tri-Township High School senior Caloe Peretti, 17, of Wanatah and Michigan City High School senior Naomi Williams, 18, of Michigan City were both selected by the Franciscan Health Michigan City Medical Staff Scholarship Committee as the 2025 scholarship recipients.
Williams, who has family members in the medical industry, will attend the University of Indianapolis this fall to study biology, with the goal of becoming an emergency medical technician.
“I’ve always wanted to do it,” she said.
Peretti will attend St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame this fall to study nursing.
“I’ve always felt a passion for helping others. This is a job where you’re really making an impact,” she said.
The medical staff at Franciscan Health Michigan City voted unanimously in 2021 to establish and fund a scholarship honoring the memories and continuing legacies of physicians who served the community as members of the medical staff.
The annual scholarships are funded by physicians on the Franciscan Health Michigan City medical staff in partnership with the Franciscan Health Foundation and may be split among recipients as the committee deems appropriate.
“The goal of the scholarship was to encourage people from our county who are interested in pursuing higher education in service to others,” said Matthew Troy, a Franciscan Physician Network general surgeon at Franciscan Health Michigan City.
Troy is also chairman of the scholarship committee.
The scholarships are needs-based and place an emphasis on students who are the first in their families to attend college.
Donations to the scholarship fund can be made online by selecting “Northern Indiana” and “Medical Staff Memorial Scholarship Fund” from the drop-down menus.
Those who donate $500 or more may name a late medical staff physician to be honored with a name plate on the memorial plaque in the hospital’s main hallway.
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