Riders Mills Schoolhouse - Scholarship Recipients

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Riders Mills Schoolhouse • Town of Chatham, NY

F. Fowler Root
Scholarship Fund

As part of its mission, the Riders Mills Historical Association has awarded a scholarship annually since 1975. The F. Fowler Root Scholarship is given to a local high school senior 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.

Click here to download a PDF of the F. Fowler Root Scholarship Fund Application.

The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company Scholarship

The Riders Mills Historical Society selects the recipient of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company Scholarship from a list of candidates determined by Columbia-Greene Community College.

Scholarship Recipients

Year	Student	School
2010	Wade Okawa-Schannell	Chatham High School
2009	Daniel Padrick Collen Daley-LaChance	New Lebanon H.S. Columbia-Greene Community College
2008	Hannah Hogan	New Lebanon H.S.
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.