West Union student Colin Tolle wins Seaman Lions Club scholarship

West Union’s Colin Tolle earned the Seaman Lions Club scholarship by bringing together the kind of record that local awards are built to recognize: North Adams High School involvement, community service and a clear plan for what comes next. Tolle is headed to Miami University in Oxford, where he plans to major in finance and later attend law school, giving the scholarship a direct link from Adams County to his next step after graduation.

The Seaman Lions Club scholarship is aimed at a North Adams High School senior who plans to enroll full time at an accredited school, and the selection process weighs scholarship, leadership, school activities and community activities. Tolle fit that formula closely. He has been active in athletics, 4-H, National Honor Society, FFA and Beta Club, and he has also taken part in local church youth activities.

His service extended beyond participation. Tolle volunteered as a tutor for junior high students, a detail that added a practical dimension to his record and showed he was willing to spend time helping younger students build their own footing at school. That kind of work, paired with the breadth of his extracurricular involvement, helped make him stand out as more than a strong student on paper.

Tolle is the son of Aaron and Kathy Tolle. His recognition also reflects the way Adams County institutions often overlap, with a West Union student being honored by a Seaman organization for work done at North Adams High School and in the surrounding community. Recent scholarship winners have included Aulbrea Meade in 2025, Kirsten Campbell in 2024 and DeLaney Harper in 2021, underscoring that the award has become a steady part of the county’s student honors.

His academic path fits the university he plans to attend. Miami’s Farmer School of Business offers a finance major, and the university’s College of Arts and Science says its law and public policy area includes pre-law resources for students preparing for law school or graduate school. For Tolle, that makes the scholarship feel less like a one-time prize and more like a bridge between local achievement and a defined professional goal.

The award also carries the weight of a broader local tradition. Seaman Lions Club members have spent decades building civic projects in the community, including work tied to Seaman’s town park over a 20-year period, which helps explain why the scholarship reads as a hometown investment in a student who has already shown discipline, service and direction.