Most qualified applicants for 2022
Memorial to four Woodinville Rotary presidents
It was the hands down the winner this year. Funded by memorial donations from friends and Rotarians, a new $5,000 scholarship easily garnered the most qualified 2020 applicants at the Feb. 15 deadline cutoff.
A Northshore graduating senior will receive the first Woodinville Rotary Presidents Memorial Scholarship to be awarded in memory of club presidents Marv Workman, Jerry Wilmot, Steve Dolan and Max Zellweger. Finalists will be interviewed in early March with the winner selected by May 1.
The club provides two $3,500 scholarships to Woodinville High School graduates and one $3,500 grant at the Secondary Academy for Success (SAS). The club will hold an annual auction April 23 to raise funds for these three club-funded scholarships.
Marv Workman was a charter member of Woodinville Rotary and served as the club’s first full-year president in 1987-88. Marv maintained a CPA practice in Woodinville and was a charter founding trustee of Scholarship Foundation of Northshore. During his leadership year, Marv steered the club into becoming the third service club in Northshore to provide operational sponsorship of the Foundation.
Steve Dolan was club president in 2002-03 and served many years as treasurer of the Scholarship Foundation. During his year at the Rotary helm, Steve convinced the club to raise $90,000 over three years for the city’s new park near Woodinville High School. The locals know it as “skateboard” park but it’s officially Rotary Community Park. Woodinville Rotary takes a stewardship role in its upkeep.
Jerry Wilmot served as club president in 1989-90, a well known community activist for planning and incorporation. The city’s first community park by the Sammamish River was named for Jerry as the Wilmot Gateway Park, a fitting first glimpse entering downtown Woodinville. He was general manager and later president of Molbak’s.
Max Zellweger hosted the club at Columbia Winery for weekly breakfast meetings. As Columbia’s president, Max could maintain near perfect attendance. He served as Woodinville Rotary’s president in 1998-99. He led two international Rotary projects to Pakistan in support of an eye surgical clinic and for development of a program and housing for abused women in Karachi. His private wine industry responsibilities included overseeing vineyards and wine production in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
The Presidents Memorial Scholarship is one of eight scholarships to be offered by new Donor Sponsors who partnered with the Foundation in 2021-22. These include tuition grants for graduates with career plans in Art, Journalism, Science, STEM studies, humanitarian pursuits, Construction and Business.
Don’t miss out on future newsletters from the Foundation by sending your email contact information to scholars@sf-ns.org. UP NEXT: An appreciative scholarship recipient from 2021.
Posted below is Edition 4 covering a Bothell grad who spends considerable time in Washington, D.C.:
