Rocky Point High School senior Kristen Zoll will be one of the thinkers and makers to shape the future as a freshman at the Pratt Institute, the renowned college for art and design, in the fall of 2021. Kristen was awarded The Pratt President’s Wallace Augustus Rayfield Scholarship to attend the institute’s School of Art. She was notified of the honor during a Zoom scholarship meeting led by Pratt’s president, Frances Bronet.
The school was so impressed with Ms. Zoll’s talents, character and qualifications that it has invited her to study there on this scholarship for seven years, according to Rocky Point High School Principal Mr. Jonathan Hart. To make the Zoom call more meaningful, Mr. Hart asked Kristen to invite an influential staff member to attend the scholarship meeting. She chose Mr. Gregory Armine, her art teacher and art/library chairperson, to join her.
“It was one of the greatest thrills of my career to have been included in the meeting,” Mr. Armine said.
Kristen is one of only five students to be offered a scholarship in each of the degree-granting schools – Architecture, Art, Design, Information, and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The Pratt President’s Wallace Augustus Rayfield Scholarships are named in honor of one of Pratt’s first Black alumni, Wallace Augustus Rayfield, who graduated in 1889 and was only the second formally educated African American architect to practice in the United States.
The Rocky Point school community congratulates Kristen on this exceptional honor.