MVFD college scholarship recipients, center, Joanna Rizza and right, Megan Civitello, hold MVFD sweatshirts given to them by MVFD Chief Tony Bruno, left. The girls and their parents came to a MVFD meeting to thank the members in person. (Marjorie Needham photo)
The Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department (MVFD) welcomed its two scholarship recipients at the department’s monthly meeting Monday, June 8. Pomperaug High School seniors Megan Civitello and Joanna Rizza attended the meeting with their parents. Before the meeting began, Fire Chief Tony Bruno presented each of the girls with her own MVFD sweatshirt complete with the department’s logo. Their parents joked that the girls would wear the sweatshirts to school Tuesday. When someone said it would be too warm for sweatshirts, mom Beth Rizza said, “You don’t know these girls.”
MVFD firefighter Rich Nicol said the department awards its scholarships based on community service done by the recipients, particularly while they are in high school.
Megan Civitello, the daughter of Jill and Daniel Civitello, said she will start classes at the University of Connecticut in the fall and will study biology with a premedicine concentration. She said she hopes to become a pediatric oncologist.
Joanna Rizza, daughter of Beth and Paul Rizza, said she will go to Cornell University, where she will study chemical engineering. She said a degree in that field will give her several options, including becoming a patent lawyer, going to medical school or working for a pharmaceutical company.
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