Four seniors will be able to pursue full time community service projects next year as recipients of the Stride Rite Community Service Post-Graduate Fellowship, given in partnership with the Philip Brooks House Association (PBHA).

The four fellowship recipients-Natalie Guerrier `01, Gail N. King `01, Janak D. Ramakrishnan `01, and Michael H. Tang `01-will be honored during tonight's dinner and reception at the Phillips Brooks House.

The fellowships, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000, will give the recipients the necessary funds to spend the upcoming year pursuing community service projects.

The recipient's projects include providing transitional support to youth returning home from detention facilities and teaching math in India to underprivileged students from a fishing village.

The students were selected by a ten person committee comprised of past fellowship recipients, Stride Rite Foundation members, and community leaders. The applicants were judged on the basis of their past community service experience and their project proposals.

"We consider how the project ties in with what the students have done in the past and where they are headed in the future," said Maria J. Dominguez, deputy director of Phillips Brooks House Association. "We like to see a project that makes sense in light of what they have been doing and where they are going."

"The applicant pool was exceptional. It was one of the hardest selection processes we've had to make," Dominguez added.

Tang will spend the next two years as the Cambridge regional coordinator for Project HEALTH-a nationwide program that helps underprivileged children receive adequate healthcare.