Fr. Raymond Beaulieu Memorial Scholarship

Amount: 4-year scholarship; $5,000/year ($20,000 over student’s Chesterton enrollment)

Eligibility: 8th grade students

Eligibility Requirements:

Be currently enrolled in St. Peter School, St. Kevin School, or St. Rose of Lima School in Warwick, RI or a

parishioner in good standing at St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, St. Kevin Catholic Church, or SS Rose

and Clement Catholic Church.

Be accepted to the Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Hope

Need financial assistance: Please fill in the financial aid form (FACTS portal)

Be recommended by the chaplain and/or principal of St. Peter School, St. Kevin School, or St. Rose of

Lima School, or the pastor at the associated church.

This scholarship is established by an anonymous donor in remembrance of Father Raymond

Beaulieu (1919-2017) and to support students graduating from a Catholic middle school in

Warwick, RI (St. Peter School, St. Kevin School, St. Rose of Lima School, or a homeschool

student who attends one of the associated churches), making it possible to receive a good,

Catholic education.

Fr. Raymond Beaulieu was born in Pawtucket, RI, attended St. Cecilia School and St. Raphael

Academy, both in Pawtucket, and was a graduate of Providence College. He attended Grand

Seminaire de St. Brieuc, St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore, MD, and Our Lady of Providence

Seminary in Warwick, RI.

In the early 1990s, while serving at St. Peter Church in Warwick, Fr. Beaulieu acted as an

instrument of God to a young mother, who was praying about how to educate her children in

wisdom, joy, and faith. Fr. Beaulieu gifted the young woman a first-class relic of St. Mother

Elizabeth Ann Seton, and offered her words of encouragement during her discernment. That

woman’s children grew into faithful, prayerful adults.

Fr. Raymond Beaulieu was the Regional Director of the Warwick Catholic Youth Organization

(CYO); served as a U.S. Navy Chaplain from 1951-1955, and co-founded St. Peter School in

March of 1958.