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Local student receives ROTC scholarship

Eric Sucar
Members of the ROTC of Colts Neck High School pack up their flags after serving as the honor guard at the Veteran Appreciation Luncheon held in the Five-Star Cafe at Freehold Borough High School on May 30. Samantha Cantor, a Freehold Borough High School student and daughter of Marlboro councilman and veteran Jeff Cantor, hosted the free luncheon for veterans of all recent wars. Students of the culinary program provided all the food at the luncheon.

Mathew Lamb has received an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps three-year scholarship to attend Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. The scholarship pays for tuition, fees, an allowance for buying textbooks and a monthly stipend for up to 10 months of each school year in which the scholarship is in effect.

Scholarships are awarded on a merit basis based on academic and personal achievements, extracurricular activities, physical fitness, leadership abilities and in-person interviews. The scholarship recipients enroll as members of the Army ROTC battalion at their colleges.

Upon graduation from college and completion of the ROTC program requirements, the student receives a bachelor’s degree and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army. All scholarship students incur a military service obligation of eight years, which they may fulfill through either active-duty or reserve Army service.

Lamb is the son of Kevin and Maryann Lamb of Middletown. He is a 2015 graduate of Red Bank Catholic High School, Red Bank.

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