MARBLEHEAD ROTARY AWARDS SIX SCHOLARSHIPS

Depending on available resources, the Marblehead Rotary Club gives out four to five one-year, scholarships and one four-year Barbara and Randy Goodwin Memorial Scholarship each spring. Recipients are selected based on their financial need, academic achievements, demonstrated community service and excellence in sports or the arts. 
 
All recipients are either Marblehead residents or are in the Marblehead school system.
 
Marblehead Rotary Club President-Elect, Zach Newell, Jacob Sundlie, Benjamin Thorne, Maisie Miller, Kelsey Maguire (Barbara and Randy Goodwin Memorial Scholarship), Rachael Slepian and Scholarship Committee Chair, Gene Arnould . Missing-Robert Hill (Don Humphreys Memorial Rotary Scholarship).
 
Jacob Sundlie is heading to Otterbein University in Ohio to pursue his passion for musical theater. Sundlie, already a veteran of the stage, has acted, directed, designed and built sets, operated sound equipment and lead stage crews throughout his high school career. Recipient of the Milton Bloom Scholarship for the Arts, Sundlie served as president of the Marblehead High School Drama Club and helped manage The Grizzly Freakin' Man Singers, an all-male a capella singing group.
 
Benjamin Thorne is heading to Tufts University to pursue a career in the sciences, either chemistry or physics. A member of the National Honor Society in 2014 & 2015, Thorne is also an accomplished saxophonist and jazz musician winning the Woody Herman Jazz Award in 2014. During his four years at Marblehead High School, Thorne has actively given of himself as a tutor in academics and in music.
 
Maisie Miller is heading to State University of New York at New Paltz to pursue a career in education. Independent-minded and hardworking, Miller learned the importance of “earning your own way” when, at fourteen, she earned the money needed to fund her trip to London to be with her acting troupe, Rebel Shakespeare. Miller was profiled in National Public Radio and The Washington Post for her grassroots and peaceful anti-bullying effort she organized at Marblehead High School.
 
Rachael Slepian, a National Merit Scholarship recipient and has been an honor role student for her entire high school career. Slepian will be heading to American University to pursue a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies; Communications, Law, Economics, and Government with a view toward attending Law School after college. During her junior school year, Slepian was an exchange student through the Rotary Long Term Youth Exchange program and lived and attended school in Prague, Czech Republic.
 
Recipient of the newly establish Donald Humphreys Memorial Rotary Scholarship, Robert Hill is heading to University of New Hampshire to pursue his interest in Business Administration, specifically in either marketing management or sports management. Hill was a member of the Marblehead High School football team and was elected to be a Captain in the senior year. Hill is a hardworking and dedicated student/athlete and he hopes to set an example for his younger siblings on the importance of hard work and honesty in achieving ones life goals.
 
Finally, the Marblehead Rotary Club awarded this year's Barbara and Randy Goodwin Scholarship to Kelsey Maguire. Hardworking, Maguire works with young children at the Lynch van Otterloo YMCA both at summer camp and for the afterschool program. Maguire is heading to the Emmanuel College to study Elementary Education.