Apr 17, 2025
Staff photo / Ed Runyan The Rotary Club of Youngstown honored five Youngstown high school students Wednesday with a $1,000 scholarship each to attend Youngstown State University. They are, from left, Lila Wade of Cardinal Mooney, Carl Clark of Chaney, William Morgione of Ursuline, Rotary Club of Youngstown President George Nelson, Patrick Montalvo of Valley Christian and Yelian Seda of East. At right is Tiffanie Thomas of the Youngstown State University Foundation.
YOUNGSTOWN — The Rotary Club of Youngstown honored five Youngstown high school students Wednesday with a $1,000 scholarship each to attend Youngstown State University.
The students bring a variety of experiences, including coming to Youngstown from Puerto Rico. Another of the students would like to become an astronaut, and another is president of his high school science club and works 20 to 30 hours per week at the Dairy Queen. Two of the students have grade-point averages well above 4.0, and one of them is an accomplished tennis player.
Nena Perkins, coordinator of the WFMJ-TV 21 Annual Regional Spelling Bee of Youngstown, introduced Daniela Pappalardo, a seventh-grader at Canfield Village Middle School, who won last month’s spelling bee and will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in late May in Washington, D.C.
Daniela was among 69 students in grades three to eight who represented public, private, charter and parochial schools in Mahoning and Trumbull counties who competed for the top spot. Her winning word was “tonada,” which is Spanish and means “song” or “tune.”
Daniela said she was unfamiliar with the word tonada but knows a lot of other Spanish words. It helped that Daniela’s mother, Rubi Pappalardo, is from El Salvador.
“It was super exciting when the last word ‘tonada’ was said. She’s a musician and Latino, so it was the perfect word,” Daniela’s father, Daniel Pappalardo, said at the March 1 competition at Stambaugh Auditorium, adding that his daughter also plays the piano, oboe and electric bass.
Since 1989, the Rotary Club of Youngstown has awarded scholarships annually to seniors graduating from Youngstown’s public and parochial high schools and planning to attend YSU.
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