Rising scholars and a departure

 

18-year-old Sean Flaherty, our $1,000 scholarship winner, was the speaker at Thursday's meeting. He graduated this year from Shenendehowa High School with a 98 GPA, was involved in several voluntary activities there, and pitched for the baseball team. Sean will be leaving in about a month to study nursing at the University of Connecticut. (Ava Durfee of Ballston Spa High School won our $500 scholarship this year.)

On Thursday afternoon about a dozen Rotarians (including Doug Ford from the Ballston Spa club) attended the funeral of Thomas Disinger at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery. Tom was a good friend to most of our club, a husband and father who was retired from the television industry, an Air Force veteran, and a committed volunteer to numerous causes including Rebuilding Together Saratoga County, Toys for Tots, the Helping Hands Food Pantry at Jonesville Methodist Church, and the American Red Cross (to which he gave blood). He was president of Malta Sunrise Rotary in 2018-19. May he rest in peace.