Kade Chatelain
Lexi Fontenot
By: ELIZABETH
WEST
Managing Editor
Two Mamou High School graduates received scholarships in the amount of $1,000.00 from the Mamou Rotary Club.
Those two students were Lexi Fontenot, who is the daughter of Melissa and Shane Fontenot, and Kade Chatelain, who is the son of MHS principal Liz Chatelain, and Todd Chatelain.
Fontenot will be enrolling at Louisiana State University at Alexandria in the fall and will be majoring in Elementary Education.
Chatelain will attend the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he will be majoring in Physical Therapy.
According to a press release from the Mamou Rotary Club, students are not selected by Rotarians for this scholarship. Instead, “a committee of high school teachers vote on the selection based on need, and the desire to attend college and complete their majors.”
The scholarships were presented to the graduating seniors at MHS’s 2017 graduation ceremony in May by Rotary President Wendy Perkins, and are intended to “help the recipients for their first year of college.
This scholarship has been sponsored by the Mamou Rotary Club for the past 44 years and the club expressed gratitude to those who make this scholarship possible.
In the rotary club’s release it states, “We are very grateful to all donors that make this scholarship possible.”