David Summerlin, President of the Guilford Rotary Club Memorial Educational Fund, presents scholarships to Guilford HS graduating seniors at a virtual awards night.
$23,000 in Rotary Club Scholarships
Awarded to 16 Guilford Students
Presentations are made on June 4
at a virtual Guilford HS Scholarship Night
The Guilford Rotary Club Memorial Educational Fund, Inc., awarded a total of $23,000 in scholarships to 16 deserving Guilford students. Eleven of the awardees are graduating Guilford High School seniors and five awardees are already attending college or university. Here is a list of the winners and the schools they plan to attend:
Grace Banning* - University of New England
Nicholas Chiu* - Lehigh Universty
Alexa Garbiel* - Wheaton College
Leo Gilbert* - Lafayette College
Sequoia Kessler* - DePaul University
Andre Kish - Harvard University
Joe Landry-McWilliams* - Syracuse or UVM
Tatum Meder - Florida Atlantic University
Isabelle Paris* - University of South Carolina
Connor Rose - Merrimack College
Ella Stanley* - Harvard University
Mary Talalas* - University of New England
Sabrina Trombetta - Amherst College
Katherine Spinnato - University of Connecticut
Sha Jameson* - University of Connecticut
Cade Yerkes* - Brigham Young University-Idaho
*Guilford HS graduating seniors
We donate $1,250 to Women & Family Life Center
Guilford Rotary Club President Guy Tommasi presents a check to Lisa Ott and Simona Neery to help fund W&FLC's Girls Coach Girls Run -- a peer-mentoring program open to all Shoreline families. The Girls Coach Girls Run promotes self respect, community, leadership and healthy living while training for a 5K run. No running experience is required!
Nicholas Hunsaker, an alumn of the Guilford High School Interact Club (and now at Providence College), put together a partnership between a Haitian orphanage and several U.S. green companies, including Connecticut honey producers. His new nonprofit organization - Honey For Haiti - raises money through the sale of products here in the U.S. The orphanage is using this seed capital to grow its own food, drill a well for clean water, and make use of renewable energy resources.