The Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Foundation (RCSRF) awarded over $40,000 in scholarships to 15 promising Santa Rosa Junior College students at the club’s weekly luncheon at Iron and Vine restaurant on May 7.
RCSRF’s scholarship chair Steve Olsen listed the accomplishments of the recipients that stood out from among more than 200 applicants. Each recipient is bound for transfer to a four-year school in fall 2025. “We were expecting maybe 50 [applicants],” said Olsen, who attributed the large response in part to the Oak Leaf News’ coverage of the application process.
For the first time in over 50 years of bestowing awards, RCSRF took on the task of selecting the recipients itself, a task historically delegated to Santa Rosa Junior College’s scholarship board. Such a large number of high quality applicants only added to the challenge…