{"id":142803,"date":"2025-05-29T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142803"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:47:15","slug":"mushrush-rosario-and-yacoub-awarded-rotary-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142803","title":{"rendered":"Mushrush, Rosario and Yacoub Awarded Rotary Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Picture left to right: Rosaria M Stoops, President of the Allentown Rotary; Yeisse Jimenez Rosario, Student from Louis E. Dieruff High School; James Yacoub, Student from Louis E. Dieruff High School; and Lucas Mushrush Student from Allentown Central Catholic High School. (image provided courtesy of Allentown Rotary)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Allentown, PA)\u2014Lucas Mushrush from Allentown Central Catholic High School, and Yeisse Jimenez Rosario and James Yacoub from Louis E. Dieruff High School, were selected to receive Roger and Louise Mullin Scholarships from the Allentown Rotary Club. These scholarship recipients were honored at a club luncheon on May 16 at Cedar Crest College.<\/p>\n<p>Each will receive $3,000 per year for a maximum amount of $12,000 over their four collegiate years beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrush will attend Ursinus College, Rosario will attend East Stroudsburg University while Yacoub will attend Penn State University.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships are awarded to outstanding students from Allentown high schools who will attend a four-year college or university. \u00a0Candidates were evaluated on their community service, leadership skills, academic achievement, financial need and interview skills.<\/p>\n<p>The late Rotarian Roger W. Mullin Jr., a former chairman of the board of Mack Trucks, presented a\u00a0scholarship\u00a0endowment gift to the Allentown Rotary Scholarship Foundation in 1993.\u00a0 Since the early 1990s, the Rotary Club of Allentown has provided approximately $450,000 in scholarships to deserving students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nRosaria M Stoops<br \/>\nAllentown Rotary Club President<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture left to right: Rosaria M Stoops, President of the Allentown Rotary; Yeisse Jimenez Rosario, Student from Louis E. Dieruff High School; James Yacoub, Student from Louis E. Dieruff High &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mushrush, Rosario and Yacoub Awarded Rotary Scholarships<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rotary-awards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}