2022 Jan Trenholm Scholarships

The West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library and The Friends of the West Windsor Library would like to announce that Joshua Chang and Srushti Nerkar have each been awarded a Jan Trenholm scholarship. The Jan Trenholm scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who have volunteered their time to the West Windsor Library.

Joshua Chang volunteered considerably in 2018 and 2019. He was cited for working well with the other volunteers, his diligence at completing the tasks assigned to him, an in particular for helping the children’s department with its summer reading program.

Joshua Chang, 2022 Jan Trenholm Scholarship recipient.

Srushti Nerkar has been volunteering considerably since 2019. During the very busy summer months in 2019 Nerkar helped keep the Summer Reading Program registration desk organized. She was available to fill in when some volunteers were absent, and she was always on hand to guide the other volunteers to make sure they knew what to do. She also helped with ongoing arts and crafts projects and with the weekly game days.

During the school year Nerkar continued assisting with programs at the library. She regularly inspected the shelves to make sure the books were in order, and also helped patrons to find items.

Last year, despite limited volunteer opportunities, Nerkar continued to help organize the shelves and also volunteered for the Friends of the West Windsor Library, sorting and scanning donated books.

Srushti Nerkar, 2022 Jan Trenholm Scholarship Recipient (left);

Margit Chelluri, youth department, West Windsor Library.

On behalf of the staff at the West Windsor Library and the Friends of the West Windsor Library we thank Chang and Nerkar for the time and efforts they have given to the library.

The Jan Trenholm scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who have volunteered their time to the West Windsor Library. The scholarship program is supported by donations in honor of Jan Trenholm, who was a dedicated volunteer to the West Windsor Library and to the Friends of the West Windsor Library. We also want to thank Jan's husband, William Warren, and her family for their generous donations to the scholarship fund in order to promote the importance of Jan's legacy of community volunteerism to our wonderful library.

2021 Jan Trenholm Scholarships

The West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library and The Friends of the West Windsor Library would like to announce that Daniel Baumgartner, Joshua Chait, Rohit Kundu, Laura Liao, Pranav Mahableshwarkar, Siddhant Mane, Palak Mehta, Abdul Rahman Qasir and Anirvin Vaddiyar have each been awarded a Jan Trenholm scholarship. The Jan Trenholm scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who have volunteered their time to the West Windsor Library.

Daniel Baumgartner participated in the Study Buddy program, one-on-one mentoring focused on basic mathematical problem solving, and in the Center for Math Advancement, which provided group lessons for students in grades 5-8.

Joshua Chait, Rohit Kundu, Pranav Mahableshwarkar and Anirvin Vaddiyar impressed the staff with their "Creative Math Problem Solving" program for students grade second to seventh to encourage creative thinking and apply math concepts to real world problems.

Laura Liao assisted with the library's annual Halloween play.

Siddhant Mane conducted thoughtful science enrichment and math programs with knowledge and dedication.

Palak Mehta hosted a public speaking program at the library.

Abdul Rahman Qasir assisted with programs, helped with ongoing arts and crafts projects, helped with shelving and sorting books, and helped with keeping the book collection in order.

These nine dedicated students have helped to make the library a special place. On behalf of the staff at the West Windsor Library and the Friends of the West Windsor Library we thank them for the time and efforts they have given to the library.

The Jan Trenholm scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who have volunteered their time to the West Windsor Library. The scholarship program is supported by donations in honor of Jan Trenholm, who was a dedicated volunteer to the West Windsor Library and to the Friends of the West Windsor Library. We also want to thank Jan's husband, William Warren, and her family for their generous donations to the scholarship fund in order to promote the importance of Jan's legacy of community volunteerism to our wonderful library.

2020 Jan Trenholm Scholarships

The West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library and The Friends of the West Windsor Library would like to announce that Grace Choe, Naveena Erranki, Mahika Goel, Monali Mohapatra, Aditya Rao, Charles Tian and Jasper Xian have each been awarded a Jan Trenholm scholarship, which is awarded each year to high school seniors who have volunteered their time to the West Windsor Library. 

Grace Choe helped the library with shelving and keeping the adult Chinese book collection in order. 

Naveena Erranki shelved and helped with crafts. 

Mahika Goel created and conducted a science program. 

Monali Mohapatra helped with shelving and sorting books. 

Aditya Rao impressed the staff with his thoughtful science enrichment program.  

Charles Tian extensively helped with the summer reading program and with library crafts.  

Jasper Xian displayed commendable dedication to volunteering at the library and shared his knowledge of math and computer science with the kids in the library. 

These seven dedicated students have helped to make the library a special place and on behalf of the staff at the West Windsor Library and the Friends of the West Windsor Library we thank them for their efforts.

The Jan Trenholm scholarship program is supported by donations in honor of Jan Trenholm who was a dedicated volunteer to the West Windsor Library and to the Friends of the West Windsor Library. We also want to thank Jan’s husband, William Warren, and their family for their generous donations to the scholarship fund in order to promote the importance of Jan’s legacy of community volunteerism to our wonderful library.  

Schedule of 2020 Board Meetings

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, board meeting are no longer being held at the West Windsor Public Library.

Schedule of 2019 Board Meetings

Board Meetings are on third Tuesday’s at the library in Room One at 11:30 AM, unless noted otherwise below.

Friends 2017 Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting was held on Monday May 22 at 7:00 PM at the Library - About 25 members participated. The featured event was the presentation of the 2017 Jan Trenholm Memorial Scholarship.

We had an unusually high number of qualified applicants this year. The board was happy to present five scholarships. We love our high school volunteers!

2017 Jan Trenholm Memorial Scholarships Winners with from left: Dana Krug, President; Sam Anklowitz; Audrey Gou; Susanna Kim; William Warren; Sri Narayanan; Kai Zheng; and Kathy Brennan, Vice President.

2016 Jan Trenholm Memorial Scholarship

The Friends 2016 Jan Trenholm Memorial Scholarships were presented at our Annual Membership Meeting, Thursday, May 19th, 2016. Three volunteers from the West Windsor High School South were awarded the scholarship: Nalini Madhavan, Daniel Selyutin and Sourabh Chakraborty.

Scholarship winner Nalini Madhavan with Dana Krug, president            

and scholarship winner Daniel Selyutin with Dana Krug and William Warren

of the Friends of the West Windsor Library, and William Warren