Congratulations to Ashley Bredeson, the 2014 recipient of the Clambake Society Scholarship! Of all the applicants who inexplicably mentioned Miley Cyrus, her Miley Cyrus reference was the best! Seriously, her winning application showed an impressive dramatic flair and we had a feeling that if we picked her, she would pretend to be named Amber at the awards ceremony. And we were not disappointed! Congratulations, Ashley, and good luck.

IT IS ON. Download the application if you want a piece of this. $2,500 for a Rhinelander High School senior.

This just in (several months ago)! The winner of the 2013 Clambake Society Scholarship is Kimberly J McCormick! She had an awesome take on the “something you’re not proud of” story, and was brave enough to choose to be a dead parent of a tortured superhero. Download the 2013 application if you want more explanation of this, but it’s probably more fun just to wonder. Anyway, congratulations, Kim!

The 2013 Clambake Society Fundraiser has been officially announced! It will be May 18th at the Rhinelander Country Club, starting at 6:00 PM. Help us put between one and six of the R’s back in “2013 Clambake Society Scholarship Fundraiser: Rock on Rhinelander”! Check out our Evite for more information, or email us at fundraiser@clambakesociety.org. Or Twitter @ us or Facebook us!

It happened! Thanks to everybody that applied! Winner to be announced later! For future reference, this was the Application!.

We’ve recently lost someone very important to us. Glenn Lundin, father to Clambake Society founder Korey, father figure to all of us, died peacefully on November 24, surrounded by his family. Without Glenn, the Clambake Society wouldn’t exist, and we’d probably be little more than some people who knew each other in high school. We’ll miss his humor and his generosity, knowing that “make yourself at home” was never just a saying to him, and knowing that there was always someone looking out for us. A memorial is being established in his name, and any donations received before the end of January 2013 will be applied to this memorial. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the Lundin family, and we’re honored that they chose to direct friends and family to our site. For a full obituary and funeral arrangements, please visit the Carlson Funeral Service website.

Looking for a scholarship? Fill out the Application! (PDF) Two $1000 scholarships for Rhinelander-area seniors.

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Photo Credit: self-portrait by Bones Mello

We are pleased to announce that Michelle Huttunen won the 2011 Clambake Society Scholarship! While the group of applicants was by far the best we’ve received, Michelle’s application was consistently awesome from start to finish (you don’t know how hard it was to not capitalize “finish” and use 2 n’s, but we’re all better off this way). Check out the 2012 application to see one of the several great things she gave us on her application (the question in “Section Five”). Thanks to everyone, and we wish you all the best. We wish we could have given scholarships to many more of you.

The 2011 Shakedown Hoedown Fundraiser, or whatever we call it this year, will be on May 14th at the Rhinelander Country Club. This is not the official announcement, but watch this space for more info in the coming weeks.