Scholarship Foundation of Northshore will award 67 scholarships May 19 at its 32nd annual Scholarship Recognition Breakfast at the Senior Center in Bothell.
The $180,570 in tuition grants is an all time record for the Foundation with the funds provided through investment proceeds, and the generosity of service clubs and families and individuals of the Northshore community who support higher education opportunities for Northshore graduates.
The 7 a.m. breakfast is open to the public. The program this year will recognize two community leaders who have furthered the cause of college scholarships. Six of the scholarships are being offered for the first time. The recipients and new grants from Bothell and Kenmore include: Leylani Blanco, Inglemoor High School, the $5,000 Egon Molbak “Service Above Self” Scholarship; Alex Steiner, Bothell High School, one of two $5,000 Northshore Community scholarships provided by a number of Foundation memorial accounts; Shani Brummer, Inglemoor High School, the $3,500 Rosemary and Jim McAuliffe Family scholarship; Chloe Lium, Bothell High School, the $2,500 Northshore Rotary Club Memorial Presidents Scholarship, given in recognition of Rotary club presidents Bob Munro, Carl Knoll, Rusty Young, Dr. John Stoutenburg, and Dean Worthington; A UW Bothell student will be announced at the breakfast to receive the $5,000 UWB Rotaract Club’s “Rotarian of the Year” scholarship sponsored by the Foundation and the Woodinville Rotary Club.
For more than 32 years the Foundation and its supporters have provided 1,767 graduates with college scholarships totaling $2.6 million. The Foundation will initiate a campaign to raise $1 million by 2019 to add to its present asset base of $1.3 million. The Northshore School District’s fifth secondary school – North Creek High School – will graduate its first class in June 2019.
The average scholarship for academic year 2016-17 is $2,600. The fund raising goal, according to President Eric Greenwood, is to provide more scholarships in the future, with greater value, by building the Foundation’s Northshore Community Fund.
The 2016 Northshore Community Fund Scholarships are made possible by the consolidation of investment proceeds from memorials established in past years in recognition of Lee Blakely, J.P. Hennessey, Nick Jewett, Jon and Paul Malinowski, Ted Marston, J. R. Suarez and with a $5,000 donation from the Town of Grace.
