Posted by Sharon Schendel on Jul 15, 2017
Klaus Gubernator with Scholarship winner Megan Wiener, Bill Dougherty and Debbie and Mike Wiener
 
We were pleased to have recent Torrey Pines High School (TPHS) graduate Megan Wiener and her parents, Debbie and Mike, join us at the July 13, 2017 meeting. The Rotary Club of Del Mar awarded Megan a $4,000 scholarship to go towards tuition at University of California, Berkeley in the fall.  Scholarship Committee Chairman Bill Dougherty thanked Scholarship Committee members Ed Siegel and Chandra Collure who interviewed the scholarship applicants, and outlined Megan’s many achievements, including graduating from TPHS with a 4.36 GPA and scoring 35 on the ACT (36 is perfect, by the way). 
 
Megan joined the TPHS Interact club as a freshman, and served as President her senior year.  Megan is truly a servant leader. Since she was a 7th grader, Megan and her mother have worked with the San Diego chapter of the National Charity League, whose members are mothers and daughters who participate in hands-on projects for nearly 30 agencies in the San Diego region. In 9th grade Megan began volunteering with San Diego Teen Court, in which local high school students learn about the juvenile courts by acting as judges, jurors, and attorneys as part of diversion services for juveniles involved with the justice system for the first time. 
 
Megan has already sought out the Rotaract Club at Berkeley, and we’re proud to help her finance the costs of her education as she works her way to achieving her career goal of becoming an attorney.  We wish Megan all success at Berkeley!