The Rossmoor Woman’s Club presented scholarships of $1,000 each to Los Alamitos High School Students of the Month Aidan Grimshaw and Lindsay Billings at the club’s October meeting.
Aidan, the August Student of the Month, is a straight A student with a current grade point average of 4.33. He is a member of the Interact Club and served as Junior Co-President last year and is Senior President this year. As a member, he has assisted with the annual Holiday Giving Drive, in which the club raises money and provides gifts for less fortunate families in the community, and the Interact Talent Show, which raises money for the international charity Water for South Sudan.
Aidan has also been a member of the men’s soccer team at Los Al for all four years of high school. He has been playing club soccer for nearly seven years. In college he plans to major in either chemistry or physics.
Lindsay Billings is the Rossmoor Woman’s Club’s Student of the Month for September. She is involved at school with the Link Crew, participated in the Every 15 Minutes drunk driving awareness program and has held leadership positions in environment-related clubs. She is a member of the California Scholarship Federation and the ASL Honor Society.
Outside of school, she has volunteered for a variety of charities, including making scarves for deployed troops through Operation Gratitude and volunteering at the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor library. To further her interest in the environment, she has volunteered by testing local water quality, helped cultivate plants to attract monarch butterflies and attended UC San Diego’s Global Environmental Leadership & Sustainability summer college program on the big island of Hawaii. She plans to attend college on the West Coast and pursue a degree in Environmental Science.
The Rossmoor Woman’s Club is a philanthropic and social organization affiliated with the international General Federation of Women’s Clubs. It raises money to support local charities and for scholarships like these through fundraisers such as the annual Rossmoor Holiday Home Tour, scheduled this year on Sunday Dec. 3. For details, see www.rossmoorswomansclub.com.