Congratulations Telluride Rotary Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations Class of 2025!
Our club is proud to have given $15,000 total to nine Telluride and Norwood high school seniors for their college tuition, plus two prizes for Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self” recognizing volunteerism.First is the $1000 Rotary Endeavor Scholarship for a student pursuing a vocational/technical program or community college. This scholarship is funded by the generosity of longtime Rotarian Roger Wickham and his wife Sandy. This year’s Endeavor Scholarship goes to THS senior Daniel Gutierrez (first photo), who will attend Colorado Mesa University’s Hospitality Management Program.
Our top academic scholarship for $5000 goes to THS senior Bjorn Cristol who is going to UC Boulder to study Chemical Engineering.
We awarded two $2500 scholarships. The first goes to Norwood High School senior Mikah Wareham, who plans to attend West Texas A&M University and pursue a career in agriculture business.
The other $2500 scholarship goes to THS senior Quinn Paczosa, who will attend the University of Vermont to pursue a degree in pre-med or biology.
We awarded three $1000 scholarships to THS seniors Keelie Wayland and Jude Klimasewiski, and to NHS senior Grace Harris; and a $500 scholarship to THS senior Savannah Baize.
Our Miscetic Athletic Scholarship recognizing athletic achievement and dedication goes to Norwood High senior Cadence Shaw.
Finally, our annual Service Above Self award goes to Savannah Baize and Caleb Slosberg (second photo), two exceptional seniors who demonstrated dedication to volunteering and extracurricular activities that helped others. They will have their names engraved on a plaque that hangs in the THS office, and each receives a $250 award.
Many thanks to our donors who make these annual scholarships possible and to the club’s scholarship committee: Lauren Bloemsma (chair), Jim Austin, Marilyn Branch, Sarah Holbrooke, Pete Johnson, and Sarah Lavender Smith.
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 
Last June 21, our club celebrated the start of a new Rotary year, and President Roger Young passed the torch to 2023-24 Club President Kaitlyn James. 
In the Rotary year of 2022-23, our club's main International project involved supporting a daycare center in Slovakia, near the Ukraine border, that is dedicated to helping children and their mothers who are Ukrainian war refugees. We donated $4000 to help grow the small but impactful Radost Center for Mothers and Children in Kosice, Slovakia.