At a dinner held in May at the Spain Inn in Piscataway, two former North Plainfield high school graduates and one newly graduated Plainfield High School student were awarded a total of $8,625 in scholarships from the Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship Fund. The scholarships are financed by a bequest from Adele DeLeeuw, who was a longtime Plainfield resident, an author of 75 books, a journalist, and an arts activist. The Plainfield-North Plainfield Rotary Club administers the Adele DeLeeuw scholarship Fund and is one of five local Rotary clubs that provide scholarships to students in their communities who pursue a course of study in poetry, art, journalism, writing or engineering. The Fund, an endowment of the Plainfield Foundation, distributed sixty-three thousand dollars this year to twenty-three local students. This year’s awards brought the Fund’s 21-year total distribution to over 1.25 million dollars. Kenar Myers was a scholarship recipient from the graduating class of 2017. The Scholarship Fund provided continuing scholarships to college students Melody Njoku and Brenda Okereke. An additional twenty students from area high schools received scholarships from the Fund. Applications for the 2018 Adele DeLeeuw Scholarships will be available in January from the guidance office of North Plainfield High School.
For further information, call Johanna Salvemini, Scholarship Administrator, at (908) 755-8098.
(above) Melody Njoku and Kenar Myers with a picture of Adele DeLeeuw between them.
