As many of you are probably aware, the Auxiliary and the ASME Foundation were left a considerable sum of money to fund a scholarship that will support high school students who intend to study mechanical engineering.

The Clarke Scholarship is administered jointly by the Auxiliary and the Foundation. Every year, the scholarship will distribute $36,000 equally among six schools to support the education of college freshmen in their study of mechanical engineering. The schools, which apply to be considered, decide how the money will be distributed. The first of these scholarships was awarded last year.

Lucille Clarke, who was active in the ASME Auxiliary and whose father was an ASME member, made this bequest in the hope that more high school students would go into mechanical engineering as a career.

This year, 18 freshman received money from the Clarke Scholarship to fund their first year in college for the 2002-03 academic year.

They are: Alex Metzler, Prae Rasameethripoob and Khandaker Walid, who will attend City College of The City University of New York, and Erin Rapacki, who will attend Northeastern University in Boston.

The Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls split the scholarship among four students: Jon Barton, Melanie Hunt, Christopher Mullens and Carson Simmons.

Three students attending the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. — Sarah Bickerstaff, Eric Mueller and Henry Valoris — will be supported by a Clarke Scholarship. The University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., awarded the scholarships to Richard Boswell, Jonathan Odom and Jennifer Snipes.

Kathryn Keller, Joseph Krushinski, Tiffany Murray and Benjamin Ringo were selected as scholarship recipients by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

— Ella Baldwin-Viereck
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