Riders Mills Historical Association
Riders Mills Schoolhouse • Town of Chatham, NY

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F. Fowler
Scholarship Fund

As part of its mission, the Riders Mills Historical Association has awarded a scholarship annually since 1975.  It is alternately given to a senior at Chatham High School or at New Lebanon High School who has shown “academic achievement and good character, and who has participated in school activities.  The award is given to provide assistance in attaining higher education.”
 
The scholarship fund was endowed by Dr. Harlan Root and his family in memory of his father, F. Fowler Root, a local Riders Mills resident who was the last teacher at the school.  His mother, Alice Root, who also taught at the school, died recently at the age of 103 years.
 
Applications for the scholarship are screened by the Guidance Office at the respective school and are forwarded to the Association’s Scholarship Committee.  The selection is timed to be included in that school’s commencement awards.

Scholarship Winners

Year
 Student School
2007 Brianna Diskin Chatham High School
2006 Elizabeth Brutsch New Lebanon H.S.
2005 Katie Harrigan Chatham H.S.
2004 Laura DeCiccio New Lebanon H.S.
2003 Amanda Klein Chatham H.S.
2002 Ashley Tittemore New Lebanon H.S.
2001 Jacqueline Gammerman Chatham H.S.
2000 Olivia Post New Lebanon H.S.
1999 Debra Leadem-Edwards Chatham H.S.
1998 Katherine Berry New Lebanon H.S.
1997 Brian Olender Chatham H.S.
1996 Matthew Sharp New Lebanon H.S.
1995 Megan Kennedy Chatham H.S.
1994 Katherine Baldwin New Lebanon H.S.
1993 Elizabeth Sampson Chatham H.S.
1992 Tanya Madaychick New Lebanon H.S.
1991 Heidi Satter Chatham H.S.
1990 Stephanie Wilson New Lebanon H.S.
1989 Timothy Fowler Chatham H.S.
1987 Lara Thorne Chatham H.S.
1986 Lorna Weinheimer New Lebanon H.S.
1985 Leigh Elgenbrodt Chatham H.S.
1984 Michael Hartigan New Lebanon H.S.
1983 Bernice Gawron Chatham H.S.
1982 Donna Bartel New Lebanon H.S.
1981 Douglas Cramer Chatham H.S.
1980 Christopher Del Signore New Lebanon H.S.
1979 Daniel Cramer Chatham H.S.
1978 Janice Grant New Lebanon H.S.
1977 David O'Connor Chatham H.S.
1976 Sue Ellen Schulerud New Lebanon H.S.
1975 Gretchen Reuckheim Chatham H.S.