Please Support Telluride Rotary Scholarships
Telluride Rotary is seeking donations to support scholarships for deserving college-bound high school seniors from Telluride and Norwood. Would you please consider making a donation through the Donate Now button on our website menu? You may also donate other ways; please see below. Last year, our club awarded $2000 to Rowen Kelly Warren (pictured here), an exceptional graduate of Telluride High, so he could study Engineering at CU Boulder. “I was able to pay 90 percent of my tuition by using a mix of local and national scholarships, and supplement the rest from my savings, without having to take out a loan,” says Rowen. “It is a wonderful relief to know that I do not have to worry about paying off a balance. Scholarships like the Rotary Scholarship didn’t just enable me to go to an amazing college, but also gave me peace of mind and allowed me to focus on what matters.”
“For as long as I can remember, the Telluride Rotary Club has been an active and vital participant in our Local Scholarship Night,” says Karen Lavender, who retired last year as college counselor at Telluride High. “These scholarships have proved essential in terms of ‘gap funding’—that is, helping students and their families cover the gap between the actual cost of college and the financial aid they receive from the institutions to which they matriculate. These scholarships have time and again allowed our local youth to realize their highest aspirations for higher education. I am so grateful for Rotary’s support!”
Could you make a difference in a high school student’s life by making a tax-deductible donationto the Telluride Rotary Foundation for scholarships? In addition to giving through our Donate Now button, you may mail a check made out to Telluride Rotary Foundation with "scholarships" in the memo line and mail to PO Box 1265, Telluride, CO 81435. Or you may donate through Venmo @T-ride_Rotary_Foundation and indicate “scholarships” with the payment.
Last spring, Telluride Rotary awarded three scholarships to graduating seniors for 2021. (Please click Read More for details.)
You may be wondering, is Rotary Youth Exchange happening? Telluride Rotary Club has a long tradition of hosting high school students from other countries, and sending local students to study abroad. Because of the Covid-19 global pandemic, however, no Rotary clubs have been able to host or send exchange students since spring of 2020. The program will resume for the 2022-23 school year, and applications for the program are being accepted now through December 2021. For complete info for high school students applying to the program, or for potential host families, visit 
d spike in our region, our first two meetings of the year will be all virtual via Zoom. We hope to have a special in-person gathering at Ah Haa school of the arts for our February 2 meeting, and then begin meeting at the Elks Lodge after that. On Wednesday, January 19, 5:30 - 6:30pm, we'll have a Zoom gathering with special guest speakers from Panama. Former Telluride Rotarians Linda and Doug Avery, who moved to Panama last year, will rejoin us, along with their new club's leader Jeff Flynn of the Rotary Club of Boquete, Panama. We'll hear an update on their service project, which our club supported with a $3000 grant, to aid midwives and improve maternal and child health among the indigenous population in rural western Panama. Email telluriderotary@gmail.com to rsvp and gain a Zoom link.