Shoreline Breakfast Rotary Scholarship Dinner a big success

The Shoreline Breakfast Rotary Club put on an elegant fundraiser last week to benefit its Scholarship Fund for Shorewood students.

Held in the Shoreline City Hall council chambers, the fundraiser featured a gourmet dinner catered by the students of the Shorewood Culinary Arts Program.

Guest speaker Kelly Beetham, a graduate of Shorewood in 1993, spoke passionately about opportunities he had because of a scholarship he received from the original Shoreline Rotary Club, formed in 1953. That club is the parent of the Shoreline Breakfast Rotary Club, created in 1994.

One of the missions of both Rotary clubs is to assist in furthering education; scholarships are awarded annually.

“With the rising cost of college tuition, we saw a need to help students with more substantial scholarships than what we have given in the past,” said Shoreline Breakfast Rotary Club President Dina O’Leary.

“We expect to establish a tradition of an annual scholarship fundraising dinner to meet that goal.”

The dinner was attended by members from both clubs and others from the community, and raised over $6000, which will be granted to scholarship applicants in the spring.