FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — Recipients of the Jonathan Gouthro Scholarship are pictured with Rotary Club of Grand Bahama Sunrise President Christal Lightbourne at the Sunrise Club’s breakfast meeting held at Geneva’s Restaurant in downtown Freeport on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
The scholarship honours the memory of the late Jonathan Gouthro, a past president of the club who was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, where he was living at the time. Jonathan Gouthro was a CPA and the scholarship is for Bahamian students studying accounting or pursuing degrees in related areas.
Jonathan Gouthro was the son Freeport businessman Ambrose Gouthro, a long-time member and Past-President of the Rotary Club of Lucaya, who is an avid golfer, and each year to raise funds the Grand Bahama Sunrise Club sponsors a golf tournament in March. The club has awarded more than $50,000 in scholarships since the program began eight years ago, according to Rotary Club of Sunrise Treasurer Don Churchill.
Four of this year’s six recipients pictured with President Lightbourne (center) are, from left: Kiara Williams, Kiara Russell, Sherrard McAlpine and Decasia Russell.
