Scholarship Started In Name Of Late Maplewood Bike Shop Owner

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School Scholarship Fund awards a variety of scholarships each year to students at Columbia High School, which enrolls students from both Maplewood and South Orange. This year, they are offering a new scholarship in the name of Maplewood bike shop owner Danny Ives, who passed away in a motorcycle accident last year.

"Daniel (Danny) Ives was a lifelong Maplewood resident and lover of bikes, scooters, motorcycles, mopeds and anything else that ran on two wheels," says the Facebook page for the Scholarship Fund. "A gifted mechanic and creative thinker, Ives started building bikes and motorcycles from parts when he was very young, turning his passion first into a mobile bike repair service and later, opening his locally loved shop, Maplewood Bike Shed."

The newly established Daniel Ives Imaginative Mechanics Scholarship can be found through the Columbia High School Scholarship Fund (http://www.chssf.org/named-scholarships). It "recognizes a senior or graduate in need who shares Danny’s passion and creativity for mechanics or robotics by enrolling in a vocational/technical school or related program after high school."

The Columbia High School Scholarship Fund was established in 1923 to provide need-based financial help to Columbia High School graduates for any kind of post-secondary education. In the last 20 years, according to the group, CHSSF has awarded over $1.75 million in scholarships to more than 1,500 students.

The group is always looking for donations for their scholarships. Find out more at http://www.chssf.org/

Testimonials from former scholarship recipients tell how the need-based scholarships helped them pay for college. Last month, a new video was released of graduates talking about the scholarships:

Donations specifically for the Ives scholarship can be made at www.chssf.org (in special instructions, donor should put “Danny Ives”), or checks may be mailed to: CHSSF, PO Box 315, Maplewood, NJ 07040

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