Three Scholarship Winners Provide Updates

The club welcomed three of our 12 students currently receiving scholarships at our Wednesday July 29, 2015 dinner meeting ; Courtney Clothier, Dan Rogus, and Naiya Patel. Bill Angell introduced them and they each gave us an update on the past year.

Dan Rogus, from CB East is a rising sophomore at Bucknell University.  His freshman year was rougher than expected but he enjoyed it. Dan participated in BuckWild, a dynamic outdoor pre-orientation program before school started and enjoyed meeting other freshmen. His first semester he underestimated how much work he needed to do outside the classroom and his grades were not as high as expected.  Dan did a lot better the second semester. This summer he is a leader for BuckWild. Dan joined the new Rotaract club at Bucknell and found it very rewarding. Their community activities included the Change for Change drive that raised over $1,000 to help eradicate Polio. They also collected toys for the holiday toy drive and coordinated concerts for local retirement home residents.

​Naiya Patel was President of the Interact club at CB East. She is a rising junior at Lehigh University majoring in Finance and Economics. She had a rough freshman year but her sophomore year seemed a lot easier. She is Secretary of her service Sorority which raises money for Breast Cancer awareness, they raised over $4,000. She still volunteers locally at A Woman’s Place and is coordinating a 5k run to raise money in October. She writes for three different web magazines in her free time. She has enjoyed her past 5 years of involvement with Rotary through Interact and her scholarship.

Courtney Clothier, a 2012 scholarship winner is entering her senior year at at Temple University. Her Junior year was the most challenging and rewarding. She was able to get on the Dean’s List while participating in two community service organizations. She volunteers in the Jump Start program and supports a group of 7 girls in the local school system. In Jump Start, college students go into Philadelphia classroom and help out. She started a Jump Start assessment program so they can determine how the program has helped students who participate.  She is also Secretary for her International Honor Society sorority, looking to build the chapter. She is a member of the Temple University Community Service Association, one of their main programs is the Silver Lining fundraising program with the proceeds going to Temple University Cancer Research.