Rotary Music Scholarships now being accepted!
The Rotary Club of Downers Grove is now accepting applications for their annual Charles Dickerman Music Scholarship. Each year teh Rotary Club of Downers Grove presents a $2,000 scholarship check to a deserving high school senior who resides in Downers Grove or in 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.
The Rotary Club of Downers Grove is now accepting applications for their annual Charles Dickerman Music Scholarship. Each year teh Rotary Club of Downers Grove presents a $2,000 scholarship check to a deserving high school senior who resides in Downers Grove or in 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
The qualifications to apply for this scholarship are:
- Be a graduating senior attending a public, private, parochial or home school and reside in the Downers Grove or District 99 attendance area.
- Plan to pursue a post-secondary education program.
- Have participated in high school curricular music activities and/or extra-curricular music activities.
- Composers and/or arrangers qualify for this scholarship.
- Pursuit of an undergraduate music major or minor is not required.
- Financial needs is not a criterion for selection.
