Hinsdale Rotary Announces Youth Merit Awards

The Rotary Club of Hinsdale announced its 2013 honorees last Friday for its Youth Merit award, which "recognizes extraordinary high school and middle school students for services to their community and classmates, leadership qualities and academic achievements."

The students named to the award were Hinsdale senior Margaret Richter, Hinsdale eighth-graders Jeremy Yi and Tricia Fishbein and Clarendon Hills eighth-graders Colin Jay and Abby Berberich. Winners recieve a commemorative certificate and attend and address a rotary meeting with an "influential teacher."

“For more than two decades the Rotary Club of Hinsdale has presented its Youth Merit Awards. These awards identify and honor middle and high school students who set the example for their contemporaries in academics, athletics, the arts and community service,” said President Rich Barton in a press release.

“We are pleased to announce that not only will we the continue honoring these special students, but that Hinsdale Bank and Trust has joined us as the community sponsor of this program. Both Rotary members and the bank staff are continually impressed and amazed with the achievements of these young members of our community.”

The Rotary Club of Hinsdale meets every Friday at 12:15 p.m. at Hinsdale's The Community House.