Kleen-Rite’s Deeg Wins CCA’s 2021
Kenneth M. Gustafson, Sr. Scholarship
Eleanor Deeg, a part-time Kleen-Rite, Columbia, PA, employee, has been presented with the 2021 Kenneth M. Gustafson, Sr. Scholarship Award, named after the association’s first president. Hailing from Landisville, PA, Deeg plans to attend Penn State University in the fall and will major in Communications Sciences and Disorders with a minor in Spanish. She said that she has always wanted to help special education students have the ability to communicate with their community.
In addition to her exceptional GPA, Deeg was the captain of her field hockey team, played basketball and was on the varsity club, a class representative, student council member and involved in dance theater and choir in addition to being a member of the National Honor Society. Eleanor also served as the event coordinator for her school’s Anchor Club where she helps serve her local and global communities. The group’s biggest event in 2021 was collecting groceries, clothes, toys, cleaning supplies and gift cards for more than 40 families in her district. Her gift of caring has also extends to the senior population where she has been writing letters to those in retirement and nursing homes during the Pandemic to help them feel less cut off from the community. “I use my weekly pen pal conversations as a way to brighten up their week.”
The Kenneth M. Gustafson, Sr. Scholarship Award began in 2004 and is the longest running scholarship program in the Northeast. “This member benefit is so needed right now and something to give back to your employees through your membership. It is available to operators as well as vendor members.”
To be eligible an applicant must:
- Be an employee, or direct family member of an employee, of any CCA member
- Have been an employee, full or part time, for at least 1 year
- Have graduated high school or the equivalent by the spring of this year
- Be enrolled, or plan to enroll, at an accredited post-secondary educational institution full or part time
- Not be an owner, or direct family member of an owner of a carwash facility, manufacturer or retail supplier to the carwash industry
- Not have won a scholarship from the CCA in the last year.
Applicants are evaluated and chosen based on their high school standing, leadership capabilities, community involvement, strength of character, personal achievement, plan of study and future goals.
2022 applications will be available after January 1, 2022.