Rotary Northwest Foundation Scholarships were presented to the recipients at the May 15th meeting. President Don congratulated the recipients, Kathryn Adcock, and Alejandro Flores. Kathryn is graduating from St Anthony Catholic High School and will be attending Shriner College in Kerrville. Alejandro will be a Junior at Incarnate Word University in the fall. He is a St. Anthony Catholic High School alumnus. Kathryn was accompanied by her Mom. (lower photo)

Ambassadorial Scholars

This info is urgent....the fuse for preparing and submitting Applications is now very short.

If any of you know a junior or senior in college (or recent grad) who might be interested and deserving of a $23,000 one-year Ambassadorial Scholarship to study abroad, please read the info in the District Message below carefully.

The Application will be for the academic year 2009 -2010.

The Ambassadorial Scholarship usually draws some very qualified Applicants (10 or more). Our Club has nominated two who were awarded Ambassadorial Scholarships in the last several years, and would be proud to do so again.

If you have questions, please call or email me.

Read District Message HERE

Jerry
Chairperson, Scholarship Committee
(210) 492-0681

Scholarship Applicants 2008 - 09

The S.A.N.W Rotary Club Foundation will award a minimum of $9000 in college scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year. Twenty-two applicants (12 - Academic Excellence; 9 - Academic Grant; 1 - Visual Arts) were received. This compares with 21 applicants received for the 2007-08 academic year.

The Scholarship Committee (JoAnn Browne, Bryan Chase, Dave Driskell, Thora Jackson, Brenda Sanchez, Tony Touchon) have completed scoring on the applications. Where scoring was close interviews will be conducted to assist in identifyinfg potential awardees. recommendations will then be made to the Foundation Board. Awardees will be presented to the Club during the month of May.

District 5840 Conference

The 51st District 5840 Conference will be held at Fredericksburg, May 15-18, 2008. Register for the Conference and you could win a $1000 shopping spree in Fredericksburg.

Go HERE for a PDF Registration Form.

Northwest Rotary Club of San Antonio Foundation Notes
A 501 (c)(3) Corp.
ID 74-2760009

Next Board Meeting
The next Board meeting will be on 5/22 at 1:00PM after the regular meeting.

Tony Touchon
President of the Board
The Northwest Rotary Club of San Antonio Foundation

Upcoming Programs

Thursday, May, 22nd
Machine That Won The "Big War"
Jim Schwartz

Thursday, May, 29th
Physical Therapy
Jorge Guerrero & Mike Benson

Thursday, June, 5th
Info on Family Stories Video
Roy Kamin

Thursday, June, 12th
Vocational Awards

Thursday, June, 19th
Classification Talks

Thursday, June, 26th
Edwards Aquifer
Gregg Eckhardt