Presence St. Joseph Hospital Auxiliary awards 10 scholarships

Presence St. Joseph Hospital Auxiliary recently presented 10 scholarships to students in the Fox Valley area for 2018.

The students will pursue careers in medicine, nursing, physical therapy and biomedical engineering.

The scholarship winners are:

• Bartlett High School: Maryam Ahmed and Olivia Stangierski;

• Dundee-Crown High School, Carpentersville: Alexa Zamudio

• Hampshire High School: Yessenia Fajardo;

• Jacobs High School, Algonquin: Rachel Subrin;

• Larkin High School, Elgin: Aide Munoz and Zulema Tirado

• St. Charles North High School: Madeline Jenkin;

• South Elgin High School: Sekiu Inorio and Nathan Mehta.

The auxiliary has awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships since 1977.

The auxiliary committee members consider academic achievement, financial need, extra curricular activities, a personal essay and letters of recommendation in their decisions.

The auxiliary scholarship program is funded with the help of EFS Foundation and funds raised from auxiliary activities.

Carole Bailey, chairwoman of this year's scholarship committee, advises incoming seniors interested in health careers to ask their guidance counselor for a scholarship application in January 2019.