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May 29, 2003
OAKVILLE ROTARIANS PRESENT
ACADEMIC AWARDS TO 38 OAKVILLE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
AT SPECIAL LUNCHEON CEREMONY
(Oakville, ON) Three Oakville
Rotary clubs today presented academic awards valued at nearly
$50,000 to 38 secondary school students who intend to pursue
post-secondary studies in the fall.
The Rotary clubs of Oakville
North, Oakville Trafalgar and Oakville West recognized the
accomplishments of the award recipients at a special Celebration
of Achievement luncheon today at The Oakville Club, which
featured Olympic gold and silver medalist Larry Cain as
guest speaker.
The presidents of the three Rotary
clubs presented academic awards, bursaries and prizes to
the students, all of whom are about to graduate from Oakville’s
publicly-funded secondary schools.
To recognize the double
cohort, two Oakville Awards for Academic Excellence were
offered at each of the seven schools this year, instead
of one as in past years. One student completing OAC studies
and another completing Grade 12 was selected from schools
where applications were submitted. The Oakville Awards for
Business Excellence are funded by proceeds from the Oakville
Awards for Business Excellence, a gala dinner and awards
ceremony jointly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Oakville
West and the Oakville Chamber of Commerce.
Winners of the Oakville Awards for
Academic Excellence are: Robyn Burton, Queen Elizabeth Park
School; Michelle Cho, St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary;
Ioana Crisan, White Oaks Secondary; Neal Irfan, White Oaks
Secondary; Martina Kunovic, St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary;
Pamela Lauw, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary; Katherine McKay,
Iroquois Ridge High School; Asma Nur Moten, Oakville Trafalgar
High School; Graeme Norwood, Queen Elizabeth Park School;
Jennilee Rose Dunwoody, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary; Brian
Shuve, Oakville Trafalgar High School; Kristen Sinkovich,
Thomas A. Blakelock High School; Claudia Ursprung, Iroquois
Ridge High School.
The following students received bursaries from the three
Rotary clubs: Alaa Ahmed, White Oaks Secondary; Mohamed
Alshurafa, Queen Elizabeth Park School; Mooren Bofill, St.
Ignatius of Loyola Secondary; Andrea Brett, Queen Elizabeth
Park School;
Stephanie Camp, Queen Elizabeth Park School; Marion Coffey,
St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary; Jolene Cooper, Thomas A. Blakelock
High School; Kathryn Correia, Iroquois Ridge High School;
Todd D’Amico, Queen Elizabeth Park School; Bronwen
Fitzsimons, Iroquois Ridge High School; Evelyn Jackson,
Iroquois Ridge High School; Jessica Johnson, Thomas A. Blakelock
High School; Katerine Kibitkin, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary;
Joyce Kim; St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary; Eva Lee, St.
Ignatius of Loyola Secondary; Brennen McCrae, Queen Elizabeth
Park School; Jovana Milovic, White Oaks Secondary; Nadine
Mitchell, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary; Fiona Simpson, St.
Ignatius of Loyola Secondary; Litsa Sotiriou, St. Thomas
Aquinas Secondary; Michael Trick, Queen Elizabeth Park School;
Lindsay Van Roosendall, Oakville Trafalgar High School;
Samantha Young, Oakville Trafalgar High School; Mazan Zehairi,
St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary.
The David Dunn Music Award
was presented to Jordan Kane, St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary.
In addition to the academic
awards, Rotary clubs play an active role in improving the
quality of life in Oakville by funding and participating
in: Big Brothers In-School Mentoring Program; Big Sisters
After School Tutoring Program; Kerr Street Ministries; Halton
Women’s Place; Dreams Take Flight; Community Living
Oakville; Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital; Hope House;
Camp Enterprise; YMCA of Oakville, Ian Anderson House, Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards and many other worthy community
activities.
An international service
organization with more than 1.2 million members, Rotary
also supports numerous international initiatives and is
the driving force in Polio Plus, a program dedicated to
the elimination of polio by 2005, the year of Rotary’s
centennial
