ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2023 CLAMBAKE SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP, IT’S SHI QI TANG, AS MENTIONED ABOVE

Her application was a delight from start to finish, from the printout of our questions, through the interesting mistake section, to the time travel section… Should we spoil what kinds of answers we’re looking for? Guess so? But yeah, not the personal details. So suffice to say, it was a heartfelt, serious and thoughtful, but still lighthearted discussion of family and the passage of time and the changes in our selves, our families, and societies. Interesting, wise, and optimistic. Shi Qi is headed to UW-Madison in the fall, where we’re sure she’ll do great things.

As we’ve thought many times over the past several years, it’s a shame we couldn’t meet our winner or any of the other finalists. We love hearing from all of you and getting this little window into your lives, and we’re excited to see where life takes all of you. However little it may be in years like this, we appreciate being some small part of your lives, and remaining in touch with the community. We can’t go back and erase all our failings-to-appear-in-person-in-Rhinelander, but we will be there again, soon. (too lazy to do this now, but imagine a countdown timer here, to the date when our teaser post will appear)

Congratulations to Liana Teter, the winner of the $3,000 2022 Clambake Society Scholarship!!

Among other highlights, she was concerned she may not have cared about bowling soon enough. It’s a terrible shame when it happens, but we’ve all been there. Not caring about bowling soon enough. There’s actually a subreddit about it. Left as an exercise for you to find but please don’t find it because this is a joke or is it, yes it is, definitely.

Unrelatedly here’s our new Mastodon account.

We’re back, with another Clambake Society Scholarship for 2022! Here’s the application! $3000! Woo-hoo!

Congratulations to Jacob Weddle on winning the 2021 Clambake Society Scholarship! The video and the song, *chef’s kiss*. Thanks to all our other applicants! CONGRATULATIONS JACOB!

Congratulations to Maile Llanos on the occasion of winning the 2020 Clambake Society Scholarship! The speech was excellent, the mistake, interesting, and Ellis Island was a nice touch. All in all, exactly the kind of thing we were looking for this year! This post was backdated because things have been crazy this year, and we hope everything went well the rest of the school year for you, and all the other 2020 RHS graduates and applicants. No one deserves to have a pandemic mess with your senior year, or any year, like this, and you handled it with grace and courage.*

* as far as we can tell from far away. don’t think too hard about it. seriously congrats and good luck

At the Clambake Society Scholarship, we take your health seriously. In all likelihood, nothing we do will make the slightest bit of difference to your health, but we take your health seriously, because, you know, it’s scary out there. So we wanted to let you know what precautions we’re taking to protect your health and that of your loved ones:

• we have no office
• you should not try to visit us
• our members are observing limitations on large group gatherings by 1) being a group of not that many people, and 2) not gathering
• if we experience symptoms like fever or shortness of breath, we will still mostly not be anywhere near you
• as always, if you need to transact business with us, you may do so online
• ** although it’s unclear whether our future winner will be attending college in person this fall, our scholarship selection and gifting process will continue unchanged. if the winner is unable to attend their chosen school this fall, we will be happy to wait a year, and possibly more if there are extraordinary circumstances, to send their check. **

Stay safe out there, everybody.