Judith Granese Final Scholarship Winner
Judith Granese, with Estefany Merino Rojas receiving a $2,500 scholarship check from Kiwanis President John Case.
The Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas managed the Judith Granese Educational Scholarship in the amount of $2,500. This scholarship was awarded to Estefany Merino Rojas an outstanding Key Club High School Senior. Judith Granese was an English Teacher at Valley High School and was instrumental in getting Valley's International Baccalaureate program off the ground when Valley became a magnet school. In approximately 2004, Judith finished her service as CNH Key Club District Administrator. Before that she served for over a decade as Key Club Regional Advisor and was Assistant Regional Advisor for two years prior. Concurrent to the Regional Advisor positions, she served as Valley High School’s Key Club Advisor, and she is proud to say, the Valley Key Club put Nevada on the Key Club map. In honor of more than two decades of service to the organization, then Kiwanis Governor and good friend, now deceased, Les Wixon, set up an appreciation cocktail party at the Stratosphere to which many of Judith’s California, Hawaii and Nevada Key Club/Kiwanis friends were invited. Judith and many of her long-time friends and colleagues donated money to fund the scholarship in her name to be presented as long as there was money available. Judith says, “The majority of the credit actually goes to Governor Wixon and so many other Kiwanians”. She also states, “I remain humbled by their faith in me and appreciation of my work. I have to admit none of it seemed like work since I enjoyed Key Club so very much for all those years.”