David Sweyer - Polly E. Sweyer Endowed Scholarship
Please address your thank you letter as follows:
Dear Mr. Sweyer
This scholarship is for students pursuing an Associates Degree and planning to transfer to a 4 year program to obtain their Bachelor’s Degree with a GPA of 2.5 or above. Incoming freshman are eligible as long a they maintain a CFCC GPA of 2.5 once enrolled.
Preference will be given to students pursing an Associates Degree in General Education with intentions of a career in teaching/education.
Impact
After college Polly taught Elementary Education for three years. In 1980, Polly started her second career becoming a CENTURY 21 Real Estate agent. Polly quickly became a top producer for CENTURY 21 Lane & Associates by assisting Corning executives with their housing needs as they moved to and from the area.
In 1987, Polly and her husband David moved to Wilmington NC and founded Century 21 Sweyer & Associates. Polly was a natural born sales person and helped hundreds of families find homes. Polly was also a great teacher and mentor. Over her career, she helped hundreds of sales associates realize their full potential. The tenacity and persistence she taught others truly had a tremendous effect on everyone she touched.
After she slowed down her real estate career, she took classes at UNCW to continue the quest to learn anything and everything she could. She loved people and their histories and would often get the entire life and family history out of a stranger within the first 10 minutes of speaking with them. She was involved for years with the NHRMC Hospital Foundation, Celebrate Wilmington, and the UNCW Marine Science Center and seemed to have a never fading energy to help others.