Tyngsborough/ Dunstable Rotary Club
2008 Scholarship Qualification Requirements

  • Deadline for applications is April 1, 2008. Applications must be mailed to:
    Rotary Club Scholarship
    440 Middlesex St #111
    Tyngsborough, MA 01879

    by April 1, 2008.  Extra Copies can be downloaded from www.tdrotary.org/rotary_schol_application.htm.

The Applicant Must:

  • Be a current college student or graduating high school member of the award year.
  • Be a Tyngsborough or Dunstable resident.
  • Be accepted in a recognized, certificate granting institution. e.g. College or university, junior college or community college, skilled trade training program, etc. Paid apprentice training programs not included.
  • Be of good character and citizenship. To be demonstrated through a written statement (250 words or less ) and personal interview for finalists.
  • Have been involved (within last four years) in community service of some form. Provide details on type and duration of service.
  • Submit two written references attesting to his or her character and worthiness. One may be a relative.

 


Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

  • The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  • High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  • The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The 4-Way Test

"Of the things we think, say or do:

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"