We had 15 people there in person and some others via Zoom.
Our president Robert Frenz opened the meeting and we presented a scholarship to a McHenry County high school student for $1000 to further her career in college.
This year's topic for the Dr. Edward F. Witt Jr. Scholarship was a comparison of todays Coronavirus pandemic and Civil War medicine. We had nine entries and they were all good (I was on the judging committee). After reading each one, we ranked them, then had a meeting of the committee to reach a winner.
This year's winner was Julia Vogt of Cary-Grove High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She intends to continue schooling at McHenry County Community College with studies in Library Science. At high school, she was involved in youth leadership and was on the Teen Group of the American Battlefield Trust.
A very poised young lady. Congratulations.
We also presented a plaque to Don Purn who was our treasurer and webmaster for many years and was in charge of the Round Table's many McHenry County Civil War gravestones. I doubt anyone knows more about Civil War graves in our county. In accepting the plaque, he said he got involved with the Civil War while working on the history of his village, Algonquin.
He will be much missed.
--Old Secesh
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