OCEAN CITY – Aidan Endicott, this year’s recipient of Ocean City Fishing Club’s annual scholarship, heads to the University of Vermont this fall to pursue a degree in environment science, a field that sparked his interest while in high school.
“It began when I enrolled in an advanced placement course while in Ocean City High School,” he said. “My teacher, Michael Pomatto, really got me interested in that area and I decided to pursue it at college.”
His course of study fits the criteria of the Ocean City Fishing Club (OCFC) scholarship program which awards $500 annually to a graduating Ocean City High School senior who intends to study biology, environmental sciences, oceanography, or a related field in college.
The recipient is recommended by the school’s faculty and administration.While he plans to make environmental science his primary course of study, he has a background in music and a strong interest in jazz. He began learning to play trumpet in the fifth grade on a horn that has been in his family for four generations. That interest progressed and he now can play seven instruments.
“The piano is my favorite, with trumpet a strong second,” he said. “I like jazz the best, and even played in a group at the Exit 0 Jazz Festival in May. I’ll need to talk to a counselor at the university about the possibility of a minor in music. But if I can’t do that, I’ll join a jazz ensemble.”
A lifelong resident of Petersburg in Upper Township, he’s the first in his family to attend college. His father, Steven, is in the Coast Guard and stationed in Ft. Smith, VA, while his mother, Tina, is a dispatcher with Gentilini Chevrolet in Woodbine. His sister, Gianna, will be a sophomore at OCHS in September.
Founded in 1913, the Ocean City Fishing Club is the oldest, continually operating fishing club in the United States.
