Captain (Select) Kurt William Juengling Scholarship

Evan O’Connor, a graduate of DoDEA high school in Naples, Italy, is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in nursing. He is a member of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps with a four-year commitment to the Nursing Corps, but his ambition is to pursue a career in medical intelligence, possibly at the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI). To support his intelligence ambitions, Evan has studied Mandarin for eight years and is earning a minor in East Asian languages and civilizations with a concentration in Chinese. Evan was the 2020 and 2021 winner of the Commander Dan F. Shanower Scholarship and used his award to attend a language immersion program at Tamkang University in Taipei.

Sponsor: Commander Sean O’Connor, USN, National Intelligence University

Stephanie Dullum is a 2021 graduate of Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia and will be a freshman at the College of William and Mary where she intends to study Biology. Across her high school career, she was a varsity swimmer and cross country runner as well as a flutist in the symphonic and wind ensemble bands. Additionally, Stephanie is an accomplished dancer with nine years of experience in various genres including tap, jazz, lyrical, ballet, and pointe which she pursued through a local dance studio. While undecided on her ultimate career path, she wants a profession that ties together helping others, like her mother, and protecting others, like her dad, and believes that it will involve some aspect of national security.

Sponsor: Captain (JD) John Dullum, USN (Retired)

Sydney Brenneman is a 2020 graduate of Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia and will be a freshman at the University of San Diego. She intends to join the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps.  As a senior, she was the captain of both the women’s varsity basketball and lacrosse teams. As a member of DECA throughout high school, which prepares emerging leaders for business careers, Sydney directed fundraising campaigns that contributed roughly $3,000 to the Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun to help prevent childhood hunger within Loudoun County, over $8,000 to the Madison Small Foundation to raise awareness and support meningitis research, and over $3,000 for the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. to help children with pediatric brain cancer. Her professional goal is to become an Intelligence Officer so that she can serve our country and play a critical role in fighting the war on terrorism. After completing an undergraduate degree, she hopes to have the skills to identify and track money flows to discover terrorist cells and map terrorist networks. She wants to create adversary financial pictures, identify suspicious transactions and activities, and uncover potential new leads that will help solve cases and beat our nation’s enemies. Sydney is the recipient of the 2020 Captain (Select) Kurt William Jeungling Scholarship.

Sponsor: Retired officer Lieutenant Commander Stephen Brenneman.