Marco Island Rotary Club Noontime announces 2021 scholarship recipients
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Rotary International’s founder, Paul P. Harris, once said, “Rotary changes us and those we serve. I believe we can change the world one life at a time.”
As to Scholarship Committee Chair Durell Buzzini said, “the members of the Marco Island Rotary Club Noontime hope that in some small way they have made a difference in the lives of eight deserving local graduating high school seniors.”
The Noontime Club has been helping students through its scholarship program for almost 50 years. From modest beginnings, the program has grown but this year the Club was presented with unique and significant challenges. The pandemic severely limited the ability of Marco Island Rotary Club Noontime to raise the usual funds to support the Scholarship Program. The club was not to be deterred however so despite this obstacle, the members were still able to award seven Freshmen Grants of $3,000 each and one fou
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Lance Shearer
Correspondent
The Marco Woman’s Club meeting was focused firmly on the future, and the young people who will help shape it. The club gave out $40,000 in scholarship funds to nine Marco Island high school seniors, to help them with college expenses.
They were able to do this despite the club not being able to hold its typical fundraising events, including a fashion show and a home tour. Since 2003, the club has awarded over $600,000 to more than 190 students.
The student award winners all live on Marco and attend either Marco Island Academy or Lely High School, and their achievements bode well for the decades ahead. Kevin Barry of Marco Island Academy took home the largest award, a total of $16,000 over four years, as the recipient of the Verne Cahooris Scholarship Award. Kevin will be attending Rice University, shared a quote from the Dalai Lama with the club w