Our Final Scholarship Recipient For 2012-13

The Park Ridge Rotary Club's August 2nd meeting featured the presentation of our final scholarship for school year 2012-13 to Park Ridge High School graduate, Jonathan Hodgins.  Jonathan’s outstanding academic achievements, excellent recommendations, and countless hours of community service made his selection as one of our honorees inevitable.

Recipient of the school’s Random Act of Kindness Award, Tri-Varsity Athlete Award, and Bergen County Soccer Coaches’ Unsung Hero Award, Jon has been an umpire in the Park Ridge Baseball Program for several years and for the last 2 years has served as a Site Director for the Bergen County Charity Baseball Classic (http://memorialbenefit.org) Jon is a graduate of the American Legion’s Boys’ State program, volunteered with the Bassmaster Fishing Outing for the Disabled, and with the Operation Grad 5K. In addition, he works part-time in his parents’ store and serves as a busboy at Woodcliff Manor. With all of this, he managed to be named to the National Honor Society, maintaining a 93.72 GPA while taking 3 AP courses and Physics Honors during his senior year.

Next month, Jonathan will begin pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Business at the University of Delaware where he hopes to become involved in some type of service oriented international exchange program. The club is enormously pleased to be able to present him with one of this year’s scholarships.