Middletown CT Rotary - Scholarships

The Middletown Rotary Club has been awarding scholarships to college bound students since the early 1960's. Much of our fundraising dollars are dedicated to the scholarship program because we believe that our youth are our future. Click here to download the current year application form.

2010 Middletown Rotary Service Above Self Scholarship Award

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

There are over 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary's main objective is service - in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Consistent with this the Middletown Rotary Club will award a Service Above Self scholarship(s) to one or two local graduating seniors who meets the following criteria:

A solid record of demonstrated commitment to the concept of Service Above Self
An academic record of 3.0 gpa and above
Demonstrated financial need as evidenced by a total household family net income of $100,000 or less
The ability to communicate a positive attitude and sincere motivation
Evidence of acceptance to a college and/or university for the '08 - '09 academic year

All applications must be turned into your guidance office by March 26^th and delivered to the address below by April 9^th. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Three finalists will be selected for interviews. Awards will be made in May 2010.

A complete application will include the attached general information and following materials:

A certified transcript from your high school guidance department giving evidence of a 3.0 gpa
Recommendations from 2 teachers and 1 other adult who can attest to your character
Copy of Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form
An essay (up to 300 words) speaking to your experience of Service Above Self and your aspirations for the future

All materials will be held in the strictest confidence.

Completed applications can be mailed or delivered in person to:

Kevin Wilhelm

Middletown Rotary Scholarship Committee Chair

C/O Middlesex United Way

100 Riverview Center, Suite 230

Middletown, CT 06457

Click here to download the current year application form.

The following is a list of our recent scholarship recipients:

STUDENT

HIGH SCHOOL

2009 Recipients

Tara Cordner Haddam-Killingworth

Christina Shinn Haddam-Killingworth

Lisa Chamberland Middletown

2008 Recipients

Jillian Crouch Mercy

Angelica Carvajal Middletown

2007 Recipients

Jennifer Bupithis-Hurie Coginchaug

Kayla Burchard Vinal Tech

Pamela Topolska Mercy

Melissa Skonieczny Middletown

2006 Recipients

Jessica Castelli Portland

Jigar Chhaya Middletown

Kelly Grady Middletown

Juliet Wilson Mercy