Eight Scotch Plains Fanwood High School students were presented with scholarships from the Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship Fund at a dinner held on Wednesday, June 8th, 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. Sixty thousand dollars was distributed this year to twenty-two area students by the Fund, a fund of the Plainfield Foundation. This year’s awards bring the Fund’s twenty-one-year total distribution to $1,143,500.
Brenda Okereke was the scholarship recipient from the graduating class of 2016. The Scholarship Fund also provided a continuing scholarship to college student Melody Njoku. This year’s Adele DeLeeuw Senior Scholars, college students who were recognized as a scholarship recipient from the Fund for each of their four years in college included Charlotte Brockway. An additional nineteen students from area high schools received scholarships from the Fund.
Applications for the 2017 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, top, l-r) Christopher Silva (WHRHS), Rebecca Mehorter (SPFHS), Anthony Raphael (WHRHS), Nicholas Ruzicka (SPFHS), Cody Decker (SPFHS); (middel, l-r) Stephanie Bohn (SPFHS), Tyler Curtis (SPFHS), Thomas Riccardi (SPFHS), Nolan Berry (SPFHS); (bottom, l-r) Charlotte Brockway (NPHS), Emily London (SPFHS), Melody Njoku (NPHS).
