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Foundation helps open college doors
It’s no secret that college tuition
costs continue to climb while enrollment opportunities are conversely on
the decline. Dollars and space are tight, students are finding out.
Graduating seniors across the Northshore communities, then, will be
pleased to learn that the Northshore Scholarship Foundation will add
several new grants for academic year 2005-06. The Foundation
this month begins advertising 89 scholarship opportunities – nine of
them new. The total value could reach $125,000 in grants for
college-bound students interested in virtually every field imaginable
from art to communications to neuroscience to welding. For a full
listing of the scholarships offered, check out www.ns-scholarship.org
(where you will also learn that a 2001 scholarship recipient has just
been named a Rhodes Scholar). Career centers at each of the local
secondary schools have application forms and complete rundowns on
eligibility requirements. The Foundation
is completing its 20th year of operation, providing
scholarship help for scores of Northshore grads. It was established in
the fall of 1984 by members of the Northshore Rotary Club with a pool of
memorial funds totaling $5,661. Today the Foundation manages nearly $1
million in assets from which a percentage is allocated each year for
scholarships. In addition to
grants from the 40 endowment funds within the Foundation, the
Foundation’s three sponsoring service clubs offer scholarships as
well. These are from the Rotary clubs of Northshore and Woodinville and
the Kiwanis Club of Northshore. The clubs raise their scholarship
dollars from annual charity auctions held in the fall. In capsule
form, the Foundation by next spring will have: … received
a total in contributions of $1,189,324. … awarded
$967,095 in scholarship grants. … helped 957
students with financial support, with some grants being … established
an asset base of $961,341 as of October, 2004. All of this
will have been accomplished as a result of an abiding faith in the value
of education by Northshore’s families and organizations which have
established endowed funds. These will provide scholarships in perpetuity
as memorials and in recognition of groups whose missions are service to
others. For 2005-06
academic year, the Foundation will add eight, probably nine
scholarships, including: Northshore
Rotary Club plans to establish the 41st endowment fund for
the purpose of funding a $1,500 annual scholarship at Cascadia
Community College for a Northshore graduate working on either a
two-year degree or for transfer to a four-year institution. A bequest of
$136,500 this fall will establish the Arvid K. Pride Family
Scholarship Program, with four $2,000 scholarships available for
graduates of Woodinville High School. The bequest is in memory of Louise
and Arvid Pride and their son Doug, a Bothell High School graduate who
died of cancer in the 1963 summer of his graduation. Family and
friends of 2002 Bothell graduate Shawn Gardner are
establishing an endowment fund in his memory and a $1,000 scholarship
for a Bothell or Woodinville graduate interested in a career in
counseling, either in education or the mental health field. A Philip
Lorey endowment account was opened by his family this year to
fund a $1,150 scholarship giving priority to applicants at Inglemoor
High School, where Philip graduated in 1993. Nine years ago in December
following a day skiing, Philip was involved in an auto accident in which
he suffered a traumatic brain injury. He presently requires intensive,
24-hour nursing care. He had been studying audio engineering at
Shoreline Community College at the time of the accident. University of
Washington-Bothell will be the recipient of a fourth scholarship
provided by the Woodinville Rotary Club. The club has added a $2,000
scholarship in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
degree program at UW-B, the first the college has been able to offer in
that field. The award will be for a student enrolled in one of three
areas of concentration – global studies; society, ethics and human
behavior; or science, technology and the environment. Woodinville
provides scholarships in the other three degree-granting programs:
teaching, business and nursing. The probable
ninth addition to the list would be in the field of viticulture
and enology and would be Woodinville Rotary’s way of thanking
the 18 wineries of Woodinville for their substantial support of the
club’s October auction. The charity event raised $170,000 and
established a million dollar milestone for the club’s contributions to
the Woodinville community, as well as to international Rotary programs.
The scholarship would be for a Northshore graduate already enrolled or
planning to enter either Central Washington University’s wine
marketing program or the Washington State University degree program in
horticulture for a career path in the state’s growing wine industry. The club is
counting on the Dec. 14 release of a vintage 2003 pinot noir wine from
Grace Town Vineyards to pique the interest of local wine enthusiasts who
would then donate to the scholarship through “futures” in the 2004
vintage available this time next year. There might even be a spare
bottle of the 2003 available for the right contribution.
A
retirement reception is planned December 10 at the Northshore Senior
Center
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The Previous Columns Nov.
17, 2004 November
3, 2004 October
20, 2004 October
6, 2004 Sept
15, 2004 Sept.
1, 2004 August
18, 2004 August
4, 2004 July
21, 2004 July
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Hughes
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