FALL RIVER — The Center for Marketing Research at UMass Dartmouth held its 18th annual Celebrity Scholarship Dinner recently featuring guest speaker, retired New England Patriot Rodney Harrison. For the third year St. Anne’s sponsored a $1,000 scholarship for an undergraduate marketing student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research — contributing to the $200,000 the center has given out in scholarships to more than 260 students in the last 18 years.

St. Anne’s Credit Union is committed to the future of the youth in the local SouthCoast community. In addition to this scholarship, for over 25 years the St. Anne’s Scholarship Program has awarded more than $300,000 to local students, including graduating high school seniors and grade school students at Fall River’s St. Stanislaus and Holy Name schools.