WHS Senior Awarded Wilton Woman’s Club Elizabeth Sternad Scholarship

WILTON, CT — Wilton High School senior Lucia La Orden Oro is this year’s recipient of the Wilton Woman’s Club Elizabeth Sternad Scholarship.

The presentation was made at the recent Wilton High School Award Ceremony. Lucia earned the scholarship based on her application showing "leadership, initiative, and commitment to community service," according to a news release.

Lucia has tutored students in English and French, as well as math and science, and managed the other teen instructors in the program. She is also in the National Honor Society, and she is the vice president of Future Medical Leaders of America. Lucia has also organized a river cleanup and is an EMT at the Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

"I am honored and so grateful to have been selected as the recipient of the Elizabeth Sternad Scholarship. I will be using the award to finance my medical education next year at Universidad de Navarra Medical School in Pamplona, Spain. This scholarship will truly make a difference in my education and I am very thankful for the generosity of the Wilton Women’s Club!" said Lucia on receiving the award.

The scholarship is named after Elizabeth Sternad, who founded the Wilton Woman’s Club with friends in 1966 "to serve people and groups in Wilton and the surrounding community, to give back through philanthropy, to educate, and to strengthen bonds between women."