Scholarship recipients receive $20,000 from Women’s Community Club

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GRAFTON, Vt. — The 2018 recipients of the Women’s Community Club (WCC) of Grafton received their scholarship awards on Saturday, June 23 at the home of Kate Lunde on the Grafton / Chester line. The scholarship awards are based on scholastic achievement, financial need, community involvement and extra curricular activities / work commitments at school.

The WCC awarded a total of $20,000. Scholarship recipients included Kyle Record, who attended Bellows Falls High School and is a senior at Keene State College studying safety and occupational health applied sciences; Duane Snide, who attended Bellows Falls High School and is a sophomore at University of Vermont studying mechanical engineering; Theo Pilette, who went to Bellows Falls High School and will be a first-year student at Norwich University studying criminal justice; William Culver who attended Leland and Gray High School is a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying physics / computer sciences; Adam Culver who attended Leland and Gray High School and will be a first-year student at University of Hartford or Springfield College, studying math secondary education; Keltsey Rushton who attended Leland and Gray High School and is a junior at University of Vermont studying animal science, and Kassidy Wyman who attended Leland and Gray High School and will be a first-year student at Southern Vermont College or Vermont Technical College, studying radiology.

Barbara Fisher Rogers received the first scholarship of $100 in 1966-67. In recent years, members have increased aid to as much as $5,000 per student to help with college expenses. Overall, the club gives out $20,000 annually and has awarded 218 scholarships to 124 Grafton students totaling $250,000 in just over 50 years.

The scholarship program was launched with funds left to the club in 1938 by Susan Daniels, the club’s first lifetime member. The gift was earmarked to promote higher education, maintain the Village Park, and tune the pianos in the town hall, chapel, and village school.