Capital City Rotary Club awards 5 scholarships
Capital City Sunrise Rotary club announces five Scholarship awards for 2014.
The Randy Daniels memorial scholarship awards are given each year in memory of the Capital City Rotarian by the Daniels family. This year three outstanding young women are to receive the scholarships: Brittany Fisher of Boscawen and Merrimack Valley High - active in sports, works on a farm in the summer, plans to major in nursing at St Anselm college; Kerry-Lee Fedion of Concord and Merrimack Valley HS. After a debilitating head injury playing softball, Kerry worked extra hard to overcome her injury and finish her senior year strong. She plans to go to Springfield college and major in Occupational Therapy to help others with physical challenges; Caroline Andy of Concord and Concord High School. Caroline had an outstanding academic record at Concord High School, but found the time to coach YMCA soccer, found the CHS Amnesty International Club which met 4 to 5 hours a week, Captain the CHS Soccer team both Junior and Senior year and score 32 goals in the process. Caroline has chosen Bates College.
The Don Miner Memorial Scholarship is named for the founder of the Capital City Rotary Club and its first President. Each year, the club names a graduating senior to receive a scholarship. Kara Douglas of Chichester who attended Pembroke Academy is the awardee.Kada had a busy life outside school - she volunteered at Live and Let Live Horse Sanctuary in Chichester, worked as a photographer at the Target Portrait Studio, sold Avon products and found enough time to play Varsity Softball. Kara has been accepted in the Diagnostic Imaging Program at Quinnipaic University and plans to pursue the Radiologist Assistant Program.
"Padre" Ted Van Patton is a fifty plus year member of Rotary and a past President of the Capital City Club. Members thought it a fitting tribute to honor him with a scholarship. This year it is won by a Concord High Graduate from Concord Elizabeth Williams. Elizabeth is an outstanding scholar with many academic awards - National Honor Society, winner of several excellence awards in science. She lost a close friend to cancer - that experience and her love for science has her choosing to major in biology with the aim to be a medical researcher.
There were 24 outstanding scholars who applied for the five scholarships. Choosing winners was a daunting process. The Capital City Sunrise Rotary Club congratulates all the graduates of 2014 and thanks those who took the not inconsiderable time to apply for these scholarships.
PDG Tony Gilmore