Adele DeLeeuw Scholarships Awarded to North Plainfield and Watchung Hills Students

SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ --Three students from North Plainfield and Watchung Hills high schools received new and continuing scholarships from the Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship Fund. The scholarships are financed by a bequest from Adele DeLeeuw, longtime Plainfield resident, author of 75 books, journalist and arts activist.

​The Rotary Club of the Plainfields (Plainfield, North Plainfield and South Plainfield) administers the Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship Fund and is one of four Rotary clubs (including the Warren-Watchung Rotary) that provide scholarships from the Fund to students in their communities who pursue a course of study in poetry, art, journalism, writing or engineering.  This year $57,500 was distributed to thirteen area students by the Fund, a fund of the Plainfield Foundation.  This year’s awards bring the Fund’s twenty-nine year total distribution to just over 1.5 million dollars.

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​New scholarship recipients from the high school graduating class of 2024 included Kathiana Saldarriaga-Hernandez from North Plainfield High School.  The Scholarship Fund also provided a continuing scholarship to college student Monica Krutis from Watchung Hills Regional High School.

This year’s Adele DeLeeuw Senior Scholars, students who were recognized as scholarship recipients from the Fund for each of their four years in college included Parker Ashnault from Watchung Hills Regional High School.  An additional ten students representing area high schools also received scholarships from the Fund.

​Applications for the 2025 Adele DeLeeuw Scholarships will be available in January 2025 from the North Plainfield and Watchung area high school guidance offices.  For further information, call Johanna Salvemini, Scholarship Administrator, at (908) 755-8098.

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