“The best part of waking up on Gilford Old Home Day? The Gilford Rotary Club hosting their 38th Annual Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning August 26th from 7a till 10a at the Gilford Youth Center on Potter Hill Road. Cost is $8 for adults and $5 for kids. Gilford Rotary’s secret recipe, all you care to eat pancakes will be served with hearty sausage, orange juice, and piping hot coffee. Blueberries will be freshly picked from Stone Brook Hill Farm. Gluten free pancakes available by request! All proceeds benefit the Cheryl Walsh Scholarship Fund.
The scholarship was started by Gilford Rotary in 1988, and Gilford Rotary initially funded the Scholarship with seed money. The earnings of the early investments plus contributions by members of the Foundation Board and Selection Committee, as well as Gilford Rotary, family members, and friends have resulted in $500 to $3,000 grants to the to 53 graduating seniors over the years.
A silver commemorative bowl, a citation, and the financial grant are given to recipients at Gilford High School’s Senior Awards Night in June. Since the beginning, a selection committee of board members, friends and past recipients has conducted interviews to select the recipients. The Scholarship has traditionally attracted applications from the brightest and most talented leaders and scholar/athletes of the senior class.
The long-standing Annual Old Home Day Rotary Pancake Breakfast is currently the major fund-raiser for the scholarship. The ongoing goal is to raise and conserve a substantial enough principal to give a meaningful and truly helpful grant to each year’s recipient(s). Also, tax-deductible contributions may be sent to Treasurer, Cheryl Lynn Walsh Memorial Scholarship Foundation, c/o Gilford Rotary Club, Post Office Box 7091, Gilford, New Hampshire 03247-7091. Contributors, who cumulatively donate $1000.00 or more to the Scholarship, are named to a Foundation Fellowship to recognize their intent to help sustain the Scholarship’s goals.
The original fund goal of $100,000 was reached in 2021. It is hoped that increasing the fund past the original goal will allow for bigger scholarships and additional recipients
Gilford Rotary is an organization of business and professional men and women who have accepted the ideal of service as a basis for attaining fulfillment in their business, personal, and professional lives, and by serving their community. Gilford Rotary meets Fridays at 7:00AM in the Fellowship Hall at Gilford Community Church, Potter Hill Road, Gilford.
(Courtesy Photo: Gilford Rotarians in action, making pancakes at a previous Old Home Day Pancake Breakfast.)”
