ECC Student Earns Scholarship From Caldwell-West Essex Kiwanis

CALDWELLS, NJ — The Kiwanis Club of Caldwell-West Essex recently helped a student at Essex County College to continue his education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick this fall with a $1,500 scholarship.

Nolan Finnegan, who graduated from Essex County College earlier this month with an associate in the arts, earned the 2018 Irene Gibbons Award for Community Service and Academic Excellence. The scholarship is in memory of longtime ECC West Essex campus administrator/counselor Irene Gibbons, a former mayor of Caldwell and Kiwanis Club member.

“Mrs. Gibbons believed in education as does the Kiwanis Club,” said club member Mary Ann Luke.

Luke and fellow club member Robert Hodge presented the annual scholarship to Finnegan at the West Essex Campus Advisory Board Graduate Reception on May 10.

According to the Kiwanis, Finnegan plans to major in biology at Rutgers.

“I’ve always been interested in science, but I took more general education classes here in order to earn the Liberal Arts degree,” he said.

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