The Boone Family Scholarship
The Boone Family Scholarship was established by David and Jean Tedesco Boone and their daughters, Kerry and Stephanie. The family, now residing in New Jersey, established the scholarship to be remembered in the north country. It is limited to a Jefferson or Lewis County high school senior of high academic standing who possesses solid citizenship qualities. The award will continue a second year if the student maintains academic excellence.
David W. Boone was born in Houlton, Maine, in 1949. He grew up in northern Maine and after graduating from high school in 1967, he entered the United States Army, serving for three years. While on temporary duty at Camp Drum (now Fort Drum), New York, he met Jean Tedesco of Watertown, and they were married in 1970.
Honorably discharged from the service, he was employed by the National Bank of Northern New York (Key Bank). He worked in several departments and branches while employed at the bank. Mr. Boone left the bank in 1978, becoming assistant manager of the Farm Credit Office in Watertown. In 1984, he was named manager of the Lowville office and in 1991 was transferred to the Oneida office.
Mr. Boone accepted a position in 1993 as credit supervisor with Farm Credit of North Central New Jersey in Flemington, New Jersey. That organization merged with three other Farm Credit institutions on January 1, 1995. He was promoted to Senior Vice President and Regional Manager in 1998, managing a region including New Jersey and portions of New York.
While living in Watertown, Mr. Boone was a member of the First Baptist Church, past president of the Watertown Kiwanis Club and a member of the Jefferson Breakfast Kiwanis Club. He also served as Kiwanis' lieutenant governor for the Ontario Division of the New York district. Additionally, he was a member and past president of the Jefferson Community College Foundation.
Jean Tedesco Boone was raised in Watertown and attended Watertown schools. Mrs. Boone joined the Jefferson County Savings Bank in 1965 as a clerk in the mortgage department. She also worked in the accounting department, and the student loan and consumer loan departments. The bank was purchased several times during her 25-year career. She retired from Chase Lincoln First Bank's Washington Street office in 1990 where she was a banking officer and assistant branch manager.
Mrs. Boone was a member of the First Baptist Church's Board of Deacons, the Watertown Chapter of the National Association of Bank Women and the Watertown Kiwanis Club. She was also active in Girl Scouts cookie drives.
Born in 1971, Kerry Boone-Savinsky was a 1989 graduate of Watertown High School. She attended Virginia Wesleyan College in Virginia Beach, Virginia, graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1993. Two years later, she received her masters of social work from Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia. She married David Savinsky in May 1995, and the couple live in Virginia Beach.
Stephanie Boone-Jones was born in 1976, and finished her freshman year at Watertown High School before moving with her parents to the Oneida area. She attended Vernon Verona Sherrill High School in Vernon, New York, for two years before the family moved to New Jersey. She graduated from Belvidere High School in Belvidere, New Jersey, in 1994. Stephanie graduated from Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, in 1996, and attended the State University College at Oneonta. She works for the Oneida Savings Bank and lives in Canastota, New York, with her daughter, Alexandria and son, Christopher.
The Jefferson Community College Foundation is grateful to the Boone family
for establishing this scholarship.