Seventeen students were honored at the Cook Campus Center Sunday with scholarships for their achievements at the University.
The Cook Campus, Douglass Campus and Rutgers College Parents’ Associations had a joint Scholarship Awards Luncheon ceremony to award students for their student involvement, community service and successes despite adversity.
“It’s an honor, it’s a real honor; this is the fourth year that I’ve been involved . . . and I’ve received an award every year and it just feels so satisfying, so encouraging to be rewarded for everything that I do on campus,” said a Rachel Holmes Outstanding Senior Award Winner Linda Pedro, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.
Cook Campus Parents’ Association’s main goal is to provide financial assistance to various student groups and award association members’ student scholarships, said Nancy Bergen, the association’s administrator and scholarship committee member.
“For the Cook Campus College Scholarship, there is an interview committee made up of the members of the parents’ association,” Bergen said. “They’re evaluated on leadership, academics, community service and campus involvement . . . and then we confer and then the final person is selected.”
The Cook Campus and Douglass Parents’ Associations started in 1973, but the DPA had dissolved until three years ago when Vice President Nancy Jenkins and Douglass Parents’ Association President and Cook Campus and Rutgers Parents Associations’ Treasurer Richard Gallagher revitalized it, Gallagher said.
“The Estelle Wolff Scholarship, which is a type of ’Against All Odds’ scholarship, is based on an essay about what it is that they have done to overcome obstacles in their lives,” Bergen said.
The Douglass Residential College Scholarships selected women in recognition of their personal and academic achievement, according to the scholarship program.
Students win scholarships ‘against all odds’
Published: Monday, April 27, 2009
Updated: Monday, April 27, 2009 22:04
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