Funding the future: Marco Woman’s Club awards nine scholarships
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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
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