Kate Weber

“I’m proud to have been an EMT for three years,” says Nursing major Kate Weber of Barnegat, N.J. She has a current GPA of 3.7 and is a part of the National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, and the National Society of Leadership and Success.

At Ramapo, Kate has been active in several organizations including the American Cancer Society and the Nursing Student Organization. In her hometown, she volunteers as an EMT on a first aid squad and is involved with the children’s ministry at her church. In addition, she works as a Patient Care Technician at a local hospital.

After graduation, she plans to work as a pediatric ICU nurse, and attend graduate school to become a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist).

Awarded Scholarships

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2023

Ramapo EMT Scholarship (Hemphill EMS)

Heather Hemphill ’05 was an active member of the Ramapo College Emergency Medical Squad starting in her freshman year in Spring 2002. She served as the Squad’s Assistant Chief from the Fall of 2003 until her graduation in the Spring of 2005. Heather and her family created this award in 2006 to recognize student emergency medical technicians who demonstrate a similar commitment to Ramapo.

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Margaret J. Starmer OSS Endowed Scholarship

Margaret Starmer was born in London in 1937. She trained as a shorthand/typist and worked in London until, as an adventurous traveler, she sailed to New York in the 1960’s. There she had several jobs, first as a shorthand/typist and then as an administrator, working for a time in Minneapolis as a buyer for a chain of hairdressers. She completed a finance degree at Ramapo College which gave her the opportunity to work in New York in a finance position for a drug company until her retirement in 2003. She was a keen hiker and supporter of the NY/NJ Trail Conference and took great interest in the theatre and films. She always like travel, both in her work, which took her to many Asian countries, and after retirement, in the U.S., Europe and the Far East. Margaret passed away in 2017 at the age of 79. She was always grateful for the opportunities given her by her time and studies at Ramapo College. Margaret provided a bequest to the College to benefit students registered with the Office of Specialized Services.

Asha and Dashrath Mehta Memorial Scholarship

Asha Mehta joined Ramapo College in 1989 and worked in the Potter Library and then as a member of the Educational Opportunity Fund program. Her advisement and student support skills were later put to work for the Nursing program, where she served as its dedicated student advisor. Countless members of the College community rallied around Asha and her family in the fall of 2021 upon the loss of Asha’s beloved husband, Dashrath. Not long after, Asha established a scholarship for a Nursing student in Dashrath’s name.

Sadly, Asha passed away in March 2022. The scholarship was renamed to memorialize both Asha and Dashrath. Because of Asha’s generosity and fierce advocacy of the scholarship, it quickly garnered enough donations to become an endowed award and will help fund Ramapo’s nursing students in perpetuity.

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