On Monday, 13 June, the SNP Rotary awarded $21,000 in scholarships to seven deserving seniors from three of the area’s high schools. The awards ceremony was held at the Grand Summit Hotel and was attended by about fifty Rotarians, the scholarship recipients and members of their families. Rotary President, Reagan Burkholder and Scholarship Committee Chair, Ellen Dickson, emceed the program. In addition to awarding the scholarships, we also held the drawing for our annual Dollars for Scholars 50/50 Raffle which awarded three prizes. The Raffle garnered slightly over $10,000, with half the proceeds going to the three winners and the other half, into our scholarship fund. The Rotary congratulates all our scholarship recipients as well as the winners of our raffle. Our scholarship program began in 1926 and is now in its 91st consecutive year. We remain proud to invest in the futures of our local seniors as they pursue their undergraduate degrees.
Pictured below are five of the seven scholarship recipients:
From left to right: Reagan Burkholder, Rotary President, Samantha Hanley, SHS, winner of the Bud Smith Award, U of Indiana; Lorik Berisha, NPHS, Rutgers; John Berardi, SHS, College of New Jersey; Ife Campbell, SHS, U of New Haven; Juliana Nociara, SHS, winner of the Walter Eddy Award, NYU; Ellen Dickson, Scholarship Committee Chair. Not pictured are Aila Poticano, SHS, Rutgers and Cindy Weng, Union County Magnet School, NYU.
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Dave Miceli, Superintendant of New Providence Schools addresses the audience.
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June Chang, Superintendant of the Summit Schools, addresses the audience
President Burkholder opens the Awards Ceremony