Scholarship for career path in wine industry
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in viticulture, enology for 2007-08 Posted December, 2006 Woodinville Rotary Club will again offer scholarships this year to two students enrolled in the viticulture-enology program at Walla Walla Community College which is designed to train those interested in a career path in the state's burgeoning wine industry. The grants will be for a students concentrating on viticulture studies (grape growing) and in enology-winemaking at Walla Walla Community College. Club president Gary Whitsell said preference will be given graduates of a Northshore School District high school or a resident of the school district. Consideration will be given a student who has already completed undergraduate work or has been accepted for upper division or certification work in this specialized program. The Viticulture-Enology Institute at the college was created to train professionals for the wine industry and has been a joint undertaking of state industry leaders, the Washington Wine Commission and the community college. Individual members of the Woodinville club have contributed to the scholarship fund, Whitsell said, through a volunteer program which rewards donors with a bottle of home-made Pinot Noir wine produced by a professional Woodinville winemaker from grapes grown at the four-year old Grace Town Vineyards. An annual tour of Rotarians to Walla Walla during the grape harvest and production season also generates income to support the scholarships. Two graduates of the enology program have been active in the Woodinville wine-producing region. They are Chris Peterson, an assistant winemaker at DeLille Cellars, and Amy Caruso, formerly a winemaker at Woodhouse Family Cellars. Both wineries have been active philanthropically in causes also supported by the Woodinville Rotary Club. Those interested in applying will find an application blank at www.ns-scholarship.org/Apply03.htm and deadline for the 2007-08 award is April 1, 2007. The club's scholarship committee will be active in the selection process and conduct interviews at the college. The Vit-Enol Scholarship brings to 22 scholarships the number that Woodinville Rotary Club will offer or be involved with in the spring of 2007 as a stakeholder in the Northshore Scholarship Foundation. The Foundation is entering its 23rd year and is operated by the Woodinville and Northshore Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis Club of Northshore. At Woodinville High School, Woodinville Rotary will offer $9,000 in grants -- four $1,500 academic scholarships, a leadership scholarship and a grant to a graduate planning to enter the teaching profession. It also provides $10,000 in scholarships at the University of Washington Bothell in the degree-granting programs of business, nursing, teaching, computing and software systems and in the interdisciplinary arts and sciences. The club provides financial and oversight support of nine other scholarships offered through the Foundation in the study fields of theater arts, math, communications and special education. It also sponsors the masters of business scholarship offered at UW Bothell in memory of charter member Jerry Wilmot. Since becoming a partner in the Foundation in 1988, Woodinville Rotary has devoted $300,000 to scholarships and education and nearly $1.2 million in total charitable contributions through 2006.
Recipients named for 2006-07 at Walla Walla Community College
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