2015 Park Ridge Rotary Scholarship Winners

July 31 was a very special day for Park Ridge Rotary Club members as they hosted 2 of their 5 scholarship winners for 2014-15 at The Courtyard by Marriott in Montvale.

This year’s applicants were particularly strong, making the committee’s choices especially challenging. Committee Chairwoman Linda Hanlon spoke of the great satisfaction she feels in providing a bit of financial assistance to such worthy young people, and President Vlad Zherenovsky urged both recipients to apply Rotary’s mission of doing good in the world to whatever training and skills they may acquire during their college years. We are supremely confident that they will do well.

Before checks were distributed, members Linda Wells and Ryan Cangialosi shared the fact that they had both been past recipients of Rotary scholarships and encouraged both girls to further investigate the world of Rotary International.

Recipients then were called to the podium to introduce themselves. Megan Wetzelberger, a Park Ridge resident and a graduate of Immaculate Heart Academy will be going to Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University to major in Criminal Justice.

Sophie Hassell, a graduate of Park Ridge High School will be attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to major in Business Administration

Club members wish them well in all future endeavors and look forward to hearing of their many expected successes.