President Paul Munk and HPHS Principal Tom Koulentis presented the seven Rotary scholarship winners. Each student came up to introduce themselves, share what school they will be attending, and their majors:

 

Jorge Blancas – University of illinois at Chicago for Electrical Engineering

 

Diana Cruz – Wellesley College, Massachusetts, major unsure

 

Christopher Flores – Pomona College, Claremont, California, for Chemistry

 

Nomin Jigd – American University, Washington D.C., for International Relations

 

Shani Kaplan-Golan – Northwestern, Evanston, IL for Biology

 

Alison Perlman – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Speech & Hearing Science

 

Tiffany Stancin – Bradley University in Peoria, IL, major unsure

 

Afterward each student was awarded their scholarship check, a group picture was taken and the meeting was adjourned.

 

The Installation Dinner is June 29^th at Ravinia. 6 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Cost: $45 per person/$40 if you've already purchased a ticket to the performance. The price includes Lawn admission, lawn chair, appetizer and dinner.  Checks are payable to the Rotary Club, or billed by the Club. More information to come from Joanne Gordon.  The evening performance is the Juilliard String Quartet beginning at 8 p.m.  NO Lunch Meeting that day.

 

Bake425 Pizza Sale is on Wednesday, June 17^th.  Our Club gets 15% of sales when you  MENTION "ROTARY"! Don't feel like pizza on June 17th? Gift card purchases count too! For gift cards, contact Carolyn Cerf.

  

The Paul Harris Pin goes to Rick Nelson. Thank you!

 

Monday June 15^th is the Outgoing/Incoming joint Board Meeting at 1 p.m.

Cihan Sonmez, guest of Yesim Sonmez

Tom Koulentis, Principal of Highland Park High School

The Club sang “God Bless America” led by Karen Dennis.

1^st Place:  Martha Gray

2^nd Place: Yesim Sonmez

3^rd Place:  Ghida Neukirch

Yesim Sonmez and Joanne Gordon for the HPHS Scholarship winners; Ghida Neukirch for the opening of Rosewood Beach and the Stupey Cabin Picnic; Martha Gray for Neil Dahlmann’s son-in-Law’s retirement from 34 years with the Navy (Congrats!) and Len Tenner because his wife is now Hepatitis C free thanks to new drugs!