The Rotary Club of Berea awards three scholarships every year to graduating seniors of Berea-Midpark High School. One of those scholarship goes to a student who also is enrolled at Polaris Career Center. The scholarships are renewable for all four years of the students’ college careers.
Scholarship winners and their families were honored at the club’s annual Scholarship Dinner at Baldwin Wallace University’s student union on Tuesday, July 15.
The students return each year to update Rotarians on their college experiences and to receive their checks.
Members of the Class of 2025 receiving scholarships were Joseph Chek, who will be attending Cleveland State to study biology; and Joshua Ulman, Berea Rotary’s Youth Exchange Student to Germany in 2023-2024, who will attend Bowling Green to study accounting.Renewing their scholarships were: Class of 2024 – Clara Olexa, Bowling Green, accounting; and Jordyn Maddox, RYLA camper in 2023 and RYLA counselor in 2025, Ashland University, business.
Class of 2023 -Kylie Rump, University of Cincinnati, psychology; and Griffen Boyer, Baldwin Wallace University, education.
Class of 2022 – Emma Carver, Bowling Green, public relations; and Bridget Bartlett, Penn West Edinboro University, education.
Several students were unable to attend. They will be recognized at a Berea Rotary meeting in August. Scholarship chair is Linda Kramer.