Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation
in the Rossmoor News
2024 - 2025 Scholarship Program
The Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation's goals, activities and supporters were highlighted in Rossmoor NEWS articles during the 2024-25 Scholarship Program year. Below you can find all of these interesting and inspiring articles. Just "CLICK" on the RED headline below and then on the RED highlight in each section to open the full NEWs article.
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"Partnership for Pennies - A Heavy Responsibility"
Library volunteers Georgia Clima, left, and Jackie Urick.
Roosmoor Shopping Center Poppy Bank Manager James Pringle
Running a high revenue fund-raising campaign is a heavy responsibility. Learn about the 4-Stages and progress of this timely project in the August 27,2025 article.
In 2023 Leftovers Thrift Shop partnered with the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation to annually fund a series of scholarships. In 2025 Leftovers is fully funding scholarships which will help six academically gifted but financially hard-pressed local Contra Costa County students advance their careers in higher education.
Learn more about each of these RSF scholarship recipents in the August 13, 2025 article.
The six 2025 Leftovers Thrift Shop RSF Scholarship recipients and the representatives from Leftovers at the 2025 Awards Ceremony in May.
In 2023 Diablo Subaru began partnering with the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation to annually fund a series of scholarships with its “Share the Love” funds. In 2025 Diablo Subaru will be funding five “Share the Love” Scholarships.
From left, RSF Trustees Wayne and Shirley Wiegand accept a $17,000 check from Diablo Subaru Love Promise Coordinator Pedro Ruiz and General Manager Kao Saecho.
The Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation includes as one of its subdivisions the Waterford Scholarship program. Waterford residents generously donate toward scholarships for their employees who then go through the same application process as all Rossmoor Scholarship applicants.
Learn more about this special RSF program in the July 16, 2025 article.
Waterford Scholarship Program recipients, from left, Julian Hernandez, Emely Macedo, Valeria Ruiz, Monica Navarro, Mario Moreno, Daisy Cuevas and Marissa Ibarra. Not pictured is Estrella Torres
“RSF and RLA Team Up for Partners for Pennies"
Rossmoor Library Association board members Kit Kennedy, left, and Lori Weston - and the "Partners for Pennies" collection jar,
Good things can happen when Rossmoor clubs and organizations partner for a worthy cause.
Partners for Pennies” launched July 2 and continues until the US Mint runs out of blank templates used to make one-cent coins! So, the challenge to Rossmoorians is to deposit their unwanted coins every time they pass the Library.
“Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation Welcomes Eight New Trustees"
This year, the RSF Board of Trustees greets eight new members, four of whom are introduced to Rossmoor News readers in the June 18, 2025 article and the July 16, 2025 articles.
New RSF trustees, from left, Richard Schulman, Nan Chrostek, and James Schloss
New RSF trustee Julie Allen
New RSF trustees, from left, Janeen Ehrhart, Dick Friedman and Jane Emanuel
New RSF trustee Bill Riess
“RWC Scholarships Awarded"
RSF Trustees make these RWC scholarship awards in the spirit of giving back to the Rossmoor community that these working families support on a daily basis.​
The June 5, 2025 article recognizes these special Rossmoor contributions.
RWC Scholarship winner Marquita Shelton, left, and her daughter Kimora Amari Skye McLemore, a previous Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation recipient
RSF Trustee Patsy Sharaf joins RWC employee Simone Bordelon and her daughter. RWC Scholarship winner Camille Bordelon
“RSF Honors Scholarship Recipients at Annual Ceremony"
The Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation held its annual Awards Ceremony at the Event Center on May 28. They awarded $458,000 (the most it’s ever raised annually) in $3,500 scholarships to 119 students (the most students ever awarded a stipend in a single year).
Trustee Bob Miller leads Antioch High School RSF awardees in the Event Center's Tahoe Room.
Departing Trustees, from the left, Peter Li, Mariann Kessler, Charlotte Misner, and Susan Baskin. Patsy Scharaf is not pictured.
“How One RSF Scholarship Winner Overcame Huge Obstacles”
Chima Oluo
“How Does the RSF Select the Scholarship Winners?”
Bob Miller and Sherrie Hansen, RSF Co-Chairs of its Scholarship Committee
“Does Every Dollar Donated Really Go Into a Scholarship?”
Bob Daines - RSF Treasurer
Los Medanos College and the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation
Los Medanos College Financial Aid Scholarship Program Specialist Beverly Bui and RSF trustees Al Webster and Alice Lau
Bringing RSF Technology into the 21st Century
RSF Technology Team, from left,
Steve Batill, Barb Walker, Joe Friedman, Peter Yang
Concord High School - An RSF Scholarship Impact
From the left: CHS Advisor Sheila Bergum, RSF Trustee Carol Caputo and CHS Principal Julene MacKinnon
Deer Valley High School - a Report Card
Two years ago, RSF decided to add schools serving students from lower income communities. Deer Valley High School (DVHS) was selected. For RSF it was an easy decision; 90.2% of DVHS students are minority enrollment, 71% are economically disadvantaged. During the 2024, interviewing process, the RSF interview team was impressed to discover the strength and resiliency of the DVHS applicants in overcoming personal, family and school challenges. ​ Read the December 25, 2024 article
DVHS Career Counselor Tammy Douglass-Dodson, left, with RSF Trustees Barb Walker and Bob Daines
DVHS 2024 College and Career Fair
Named Scholarships Help RSF Make College Dreams Come True
While listening to 2024 Scholarship winner Amy Elbert tell her compelling story at RSF’s 2024 Fall Donor Reception, many in the audience shed tears. Among them was Theresa Kuo, whose husband Ta-hsia had recently passed away. As she listened, an idea flashed in her mind. After consulting with her two sons and one daughter, they decided together to fund not one, but two scholarships. “Ta-hsia would love it!” Kuo thought to herself.
Ta-hsia Kuo
Judy and Bill Leckonby
Named Scholarship Donors
Gene Shaw and his sister, Barbara Shaw
Named Scholarship Donor
The Wonder Women of Pittsburg High
“Our kids are rock stars!” crows Melanie Mosely, Pittsburg High School’s Senior College and Career Technician. The successes Mosely and her colleague Elizabeth Espinosa help facilitate each year through the school’s Office of Career and College Counseling justify her enthusiasm.
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Walter Barr, Elizabeth Espinosa, Lynda Caputo and Melanie Mosely. Barr and Caputo are RSF Trustees.
What’s a Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation Add-on?
Ralph and Diane Hinds are seen in 1992 during a trip to Mexico. Diane has donated a $2500 Add-on Award for a single parent to be awarded in 2025.
The Add-On scholarship program gives donors the opportunity to actively participate in the RSF goal to support the educational aspirations of deserving individuals. This article highlights some of people and families who have helped RSF "Make a Difference."
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RSF Shares Stories of DVC Scholarship Recipients
Rossmoor Scholarship Foundations (RSF) trustees learn a lot from student applications. Here are the three stories from the nine Diablo Valley College students who received RSF scholarships this year.
Xintli
Corrin
Jorge
"Mount Diablo High School (MDHS) takes pride in providing an inviting campus where students feel safe, respected, and heard. No easy feat, considering that it serves about 1,500 ethnically diverse students."
From left, RSF Trustees Mariann Kessler and Melody Silberstein, MDHS College and Career Counselor Erika Ramos and Principal Markell McCain
“We believe that everyone benefits from the existence of diversity in our communities, and we feel that the work of RAD and the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation, which offers educational opportunities to deserving students from diverse backgrounds in Contra Costa County, supports this premise.”
RAD Rocks Dance Party fundraising event held at the Rossmoor Event Center last July 2
Rossmoor residents discuss the QCD that provides a tax-free option to direct funds from a rollover IRA or 401K to the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation. Read this Oct. 23rd Rossmoor News article.
Keith and Jill Alley
Steve and Jackie Batill
Frank Nelson - 1987 RSF Scholarship Recipient and now a Donor
Amye Elbert - 2024 RSF Scholarship Recipient
Charlie Zink and Pedro Ruiz of Diablo Subaru, which funded 10 RSF scholarships in 2014 through Subaru's "Share the Love Program"
Shirley Wiegand RSF President with a poster of this year's 84 Scholarship Recipients.
“Transforming young lives since 1967.” That’s the theme of this year’s Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation (RSF) fall fundraising drive.This fall, once again, 27 volunteer RSF Trustees kick off a fundraising drive designed to help fund college expenses for local students from six high schools and two community colleges.