Seven RCSJ Students Awarded Scholarships

Deptford Twp. – Sevenof Rowan College of South Jersey’s Gloucester campus students received $1,000Peter J. McGuire scholarships during the 125th Annual Labor DayObservance held Friday, Aug. 30, at the Collingswood Grand Ballroom.

Rowan College ofSouth Jersey President Frederick Keating and New Jersey Senate President SteveSweeney were on hand at the scholarship breakfast to congratulate studentsHailee Bachorz of Woodbury, Margaret Benz of Monroeville, Maura Conaghan ofBarrington, Jordyn Cudd of Franklinville, Tyren Davis of Hi Nella, AlyssaMeglino of Williamstown and Makaila Valentino of Mullica Hill.

Founded in 1985 bythe Camden Central Labor Union and American Federation of Teachers Local 2373,the program honors McGuire, the father of Labor Day. Coordinated by theSouthern New Jersey AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, it has granted over 600scholarships—awarding more than $500,000 to deserving students—since itsinception.

McGuire devoted his life to fair labor laws, workingconditions and education and co-founded the American Federation of Laboralongside Samuel Gompers. He famously proclaimed, “[we want] more schoolhousesand less jails, more books and less arsenals, more learning and less vice.”

Rowan College South Jersey is acomprehensive, two-year regional college serving more than 10,000 full- andpart-time students with degree and workforce development programs, on campusesin Gloucester and Cumberland Counties. The main campus in Gloucester County islocated on 250-acres on Tanyard Road in Deptford, just off Exit 56 of Route 55.The Cumberland County campus is located on a 90-acre campus in Vineland, withtwo off-site locations in Millville: The Paula J. Ring Education Center and theArts and Innovation Center, containing the Clay College studio and gallery,educational and training classrooms, and entrepreneurial space. Rowan CollegeSouth Jersey is fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on HigherEducation.