DAR Awards Scholarship to Brewster’s Ruyack

Eric Gross Alex Ruyack receives his check from Libby Baker at the celebration held at the Old Southeast Church. Brewster High School graduate Alex Ruyack has a new address this week: Cornell University.

The 2009 graduate is studying environmental engineering and will be continuing his research on carbon nanotubes— tiny structures that are used to purify water.

During a recent interview with the Courier, the handsome young man explained that nanotubes could also be installed in filtration systems to “desalinate water.”

Prior to his departure to Ithaca last week, Alex received a $2,000 scholarship from the Enoch Crosby Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Southeast-based organization’s state scholarship will award Alex $500 for each year of his four years at the prestigious Ivy League university.

DAR Regent Libby Baker noted that the Enoch Crosby Chapter of the DAR was founded in 1926 and was named after the “soldier and spy” whose feats during the Revolutionary War in Putnam and northern Westchester inspired James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy.

The Daughters of the American Revolution is open to all women whose direct

ancestors supported the American Revolution. Baker said the group’s primary

objectives were “historic preservation, education, and patriotism.”

Those seeking additional information about the DAR may contact Baker at 914-560-4020.