Adele DeLeeuw Scholarships Awarded to Area Students

Three local former high school graduates from the Plainfield and North Plainfield  high schools received a total of $11,300 in continuing scholarships from the Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship Fund at a dinner held Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at the Spain Inn in Piscataway. The scholarships are financed by a bequest from Adele DeLeeuw, longtime Plainfield resident, author of 75 books, journalist and 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 from the Fund to students in their communities who pursue a course of study in poetry, art, journalism, writing or engineering.  Fifty-five thousand dollars was distributed this year to twenty-one area students by the Fund, a fund of the Plainfield Foundation.  This year’s awards bring the Fund’s twenty-three year total distribution to over 1.3 million dollars.

The Scholarship Fund provided continuing scholarships to college students Melody Njoku and Brenda Okereke (both from North Plainfield), and Kenar Myers from Plainfield. An additional eighteen students from area high schools received scholarships from the Fund.

Applications for the 2019 Adele DeLeeuw Scholarships will be available in January from North Plainfield High School guidance office. For further information, call Johanna Salvemini, Scholarship Administrator, at (908) 755-8098.

(above) Adele DeLeeuw (1899 to 1988)