Nursing Student Alyssa Billie '20 Awarded LeCoMASE Scholarship

Thanks to the Lehigh County Medical Auxiliary Scholarship and Educational Fund (LeCoMASE), junior nursing student Alyssa Billie ’20 is able to put more money toward her tuition. 

“Receiving this scholarship is something I am extremely grateful for. I appreciate the generosity of this organization in helping me pay some of my college tuition,” Billie says. 

“Receiving this scholarship is something I am extremely grateful for. I appreciate the generosity of this organization in helping me pay some of my college tuition.”

Alyssa Billie '20

LeCoMASE awards $1,000 to a third-year undergraduate nursing student within Lehigh County who is in good academic standing. Martha Maffeo, president of LeCoMASE, and Barbara Peters, chair of the nursing scholarship program at LeCoMASE, presented Billie with the $1,000 scholarship. 

LeCoMASE was established in 1968 to provide financial assistance to medical students from Lehigh County. In 2013, it set up a nursing scholarship award at DeSales.