On Monday, May 10, the Taylor Rotary Club will honor the top 10% of local graduates and award its $6,000 scholarship at a banquet at Taylor ISD's Main Street Events Center.
Taylor Rotary Club will recognize the top 10% of local graduates and award its scholarship at the Rotary Scholars Banquet on Monday, May 10.
“These local graduates are the foundation for the future of our community,” Club President Regina Carlson said. “This annual event is important to our club and we look forward to meeting these students and visiting with them and their parents.”
The Rotary Club of Taylor has recognized the top 10% of the community’s graduating seniors since it created the student loan fund in 1923. This year, the club’s will give one deserving senior a $6,000 scholarship, the largest from any organization in the Taylor community.
“We are only able to do this because our community has supported the Taylor Rotary Club with its annual fundraisers,” Carlson said, “And, of course, because of our dedicated Rotarians who have demonstrated the Rotary motto of ‘Service Above Self’ in Taylor for 100 years.”
Carlson met with the scholars on April 22 and is preparing to distribute invitations and tickets next week. Each scholar is given three tickets: one for him- or herself and the others for parents, grandparents, guardians or other significant adults in their lives.
Local Rotarians will be spread around the room to act as table hosts and get to know the scholars and their families. Rotarians are asked to arrive at the Taylor ISD Main Street Events Center, 3101 N. Main St., between 5 and 5:15 p.m.
Doors will open for the scholars and their guests at 5:30 p.m. with seating complete by 5:45 so the program can begin promptly at 6 p.m.
This year’s speaker is local Rotarian, fourth-generation Taylorite and St. Mary’s Catholic School Principal Heidi Zimmerhanzel Altman. She is a 1992 Taylor High School honor graduate and Rotary Scholar.