Youth Services Chair, Cynthia Woodruff-Neer gave a quick recap of what Youth Services accomplished this
year. Interact raised $6,000 and made donations to numerous programs such as Doctors Without Borders,
American Cancer Society and Ukranian relief. The 4-Way Test was expanded this year to include the high school. The 1st place essay winners at each level went on to the District level and were awarded 3rd place. W sent 7 students to RYLA this year. Books were donated to all 3rd grade and 5th grade students this year. A summer Volleyball Camp is being set up with high school students doing the coaching thanks to funding from our club.
Scholarship Winners: There were 57 graduates from CUHS and Leffingwell this year and 54 applied for schol- arships. 36 from CUHS and 10 from Leffingwell applied for Rotary scholarships. Donna Crocker, Paula Porter and Cynthia reviewed the applications and, based on their academics, extracurricular, essays and interviews, selected 10 students to receive $1,000 scholarships and 3 students to receive $1,100 Service Above Self Schol- arships in honor of Sue Oberholtzer.
Alexandra Aguilar will be attending Cal Poly majoring in Political Science with the goal of becoming a Public De- fender.
Emmy Johnson will be attending Santa Barbara Community College majoring in Biology and hopes to become teacher.
Marlem Cambron will be attending cooking school with the goal of becoming a chef in one of Cambria’s resta rants.
Alexander Mercado was accepted at Cal Poly where he will be majoring in Civil Engineering.
Emiliano Pena will also be attending Cal Poly majoring in Aerospace Engineering.
Shaidy Placencia is headed to UC Davis to study Neuroscience.
Isabella Weaver will be at UCSD studying Political Science with a possible minor in Creative Writing.
Sue O. Service Above Self Scholarships were awarded to:
Jannah Al Defaaei who will be attending UC Davis majoring in Applied Chemistry.
Jonathan Cleave will be studying Business at Cal Poly.
Lisi Happel with be working towards becoming a doctor after majoring in Chemistry at UC Berkley. Congratulations to all!