The successful fundraising efforts of the Belfast Rotary Club are celebrated at a May luncheon when area students are awarded scholarships in the categories of leadership, service, and vocational achievement. Those who compete for the scholarships are nominated by high schools in Waldo County: Belfast Area High School, Searsport District High School, and Mount View High School, as well as the Waldo County Technical Center. The size and number of scholarships awarded depends upon the funds available.

2010 Scholarship Winners

When you read the stories of the teens who were awarded $21,000 in Belfast Rotary Club scholarships recently, you can’t help but be impressed with the accomplishments.
 
Among their achievements are: top class rankings, student athlete awards, class officers, honor bands and choruses, National Honor Society, writing awards, Student Senate leaders, completion of college courses while still in high school, acting awards, organizing the school prom, serving as reporters and photographers for the school newspaper and yearbook, and receiving National Merit Scholarship awards.

And their achievements aren’t limited to school activities, they also shovel snow for the disabled, organize public service projects, serve in a soup kitchen and in food pantries, keep the Stockton Springs recycling program going, fundraise to help the needy weatherize their homes, help fill holiday baskets, work at the Game Loft, help with the Camden Conference and work on raising awareness of social issues. One was even named the Maine Youth Volunteer of the Year by Gov. John Baldacci.

In fact this year’s group of applicants was so impressive, that more scholarships were awarded than ever before. The 11 winners for 2010 are:

• Ashton Fancy
Belfast Area High School
$5,000
Pitman Leadership Scholarship
Mentor: George Squibb, Belfast Museum archivist
College plans: Smith College

• Megan Higgins
Searsport District High School
$1,000
Rotary Leadership Scholarship
Mentor: her mother
College plans: Rochester Institute of Technology

• Justin Roberts-Pierel
Mt. View High School
$3,000
Rotary Leadership Scholarship
Mentor: Chris Hink, soccer coach
College plans: Bowdoin College

• Lydia Rocheleau
Belfast Area High School
$3,000
Rotary Leadership Scholarship
Mentor: Vicki Hamlin, eighth-grade English teacher
College plans: Queens University

• James Knight
Belfast Area High School
$3,000
F. Frederick Romanow Jr. Service Scholarship
College plans: University of Maine

• Cody Greenlaw
Searsport District High School
$2,000
Rotary Service Scholarship
College plans: Champlain College, following
   a one-year student exchange in Germany

• Josiah Brazier
Searsport District High School
$2,000
Rotary Service Scholarship
College plans: University of Maine at Presque Isle

• Heather Marlow
Belfast Area High School
$1,000
Rotary Service Scholarship
College plans: University of Maine at Augusta

• Joshua Linscott
Belfast Area High School and
Waldo County Technical Center
$1,000
Rhodes Scholarship
College plans: Central Maine Community College

• Alonia Horton
Home schooled and
Waldo County Technical Center
$1,000
Lawson Scholarship
College plans: Kennebec Valley Community College

 


• Megan Morton
Mt. View High School and
Waldo County Technical Center
$1,000
Technical Center
College plans: Southern Maine Community College

Ashton Fancy

Megan Higgins

Justin Roberts-Pierel

Lydia Rocheleau

James Knight

Cody Greenlaw

Josiah Brazier

Heather Marlow

Joshua Linscott

Alonia Horton

Megan Morton