The Thorton A. Shipley Scholarship Award is Named in honor of Chief and President Emeritus T. A. Shipley

Presented in Memory of Deceased Members of Lewes Fire Department Annually.

• 1995 – Katie R. Rickards – In Memory of Samuel C. Pierce, Sr.
• 1994 – Cynthia Fisher – In Memory of Robert B. Fisher, Sr.
• 1993 – Natalie Donovan – In Memory of James S. Maull, Sr.
• 1992 – Patricia Lou Rickards – In Memory of G.Edward Wyatt, Sr.
• 1991 – Adria B. Van Buskirk – In Memory of Preston J. Foskey
• 1990 – Pamela Dirks – In Memory of Thomas Scott Pierce, Sr.
• 1989 – Sherry Sharp – In Memory of Georg H. Dutton
• 1988 – Steven Menozzi – In memory of T.A.Shipley