The Middletown Rotary Scholarship Program

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