Rotary Music Scholarship applications
now being accepted!
The Rotary Club of Downers Grove is
now accepting applications for their annual Charles Dickerman Music
Scholarship. Each year the Rotary Club of Downers Grove gives a $2,000
scholarship check to a deserving high school senior who resides in Downers
Grove or the District 99 attendance area. Charles Dickerman was a founding
member of the Rotary Club of Downers Grove.
He was a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who had
undergraduate degrees in both physics and music. Charles stayed involved in
music throughout his life and was an avid bagpiper.
A scholarship application can be
downloaded at www.dgrotary.com.
Applicants must have their forms
postmarked by March 10, 2014. If
selected as a finalist, candidates must be available for an interview and
audition in the evening of April 7, 2014.
The qualifications to apply for this scholarship are:
· Be a graduating senior
attending a public, private, parochial or home school, and reside in Downers
Grove or the High School District 99 attendance area.
· Plan to pursue a
post-secondary education program.
· Have participated in
high school curricular music activities and/or extracurricular music
activities.
· Composers and/or
arrangers qualify for this scholarship.
· Pursuit of an
undergraduate music major or minor is not required.
· Financial need is not
a criterion for selection.