The Batavia Rotary Club has been in existence since 1938, and honors founder Harry Kahle with this scholarship. Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world as well as in
Clermont County. The Batavia Rotary provides this scholarship each year to a Clermont County resident who provides "service above self" through community service and volunteerism.