Annually the Rotary Club of Kirkland offers scholarships to students attending high schools within the Kirkland area aimed at furthering their higher education. This season, the club is pleased to present $3,000 scholarships to six Lake Washington High School seniors: Noah Aguirre, Brandon Goodfried, Brooke Lewis, Lexi Storey, Claire Vaitkus, and Katherine Montgomery who was awarded a $3,000 Charles O. Morgan Communications Scholarship to further her journalistic, literary, and theater career. In addition to the club scholarships, Brandon Goodfried was awarded a $1,000 Kirkland Rotary Business & Accounting Scholarship sponsored by Rick Walter and Hutchison & Walter CPAs, Erisa Baba was awarded a $1,500 Step Scholarship sponsored by the Stromberg family, and Miguel De Anda was awarded a $1,500 Kirkland Rotary Technical Education Scholarship sponsored by Dr. Joanne Primavera.
Each of the students completed an online application and sat for an interview with Rotary club members. The club’s major fundraising events, previously the Great Puget Sound Duck Dash and now the Great Kirkland Rotary Rummage Sale, provide the funds for the Rotary club scholarships, and Rotarians and community members contribute to special scholarships. Thank you to all who were involved in raising scholarship funds for our community’s young adults.