The Samuel Phoenix Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently recognized three outstanding senior high school students and seven middle school students as Good Citizens.
The students, who were selected based on qualities of leadership, dependability, service and patriotism, were honored in a special ceremony at Geneva Lake Museum in March.
The high school student winners were Lindsay Paulsen from Walworth Big Foot High School, Jarod Comas from Delavan-Darien High School and Madison Schoolfield from Lake Geneva Badger High School.
They each submitted an essay based on the title “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It: You and your peers are our Nations Leaders of Tomorrow. How would you energize America’s youth to fully engage them as effective leaders and why is this important?”
Paulsen was the winner of this essay contest and her essay was sent on to the State DAR Essay Scholarship Competition.
Students receiving the Youth Good Citizenship Award at the middle school level included: Tia Bethke from Phoenix Middle School in Delavan; A.J. Hartman from Walworth Grade School; Kaela Zapadinsky from the Wisconsin School for the Deaf; Jillian Dantuma from St. Frances de Sales Catholic School in Lake Geneva; Raegan Pelnar from Delavan Christian School; Mariah Stewart from Our Redeemer Lutheran School; and Erick Valdez from Lakeland School.
The middle school students were selected by staff from their respective schools based on qualities of honor, service, courage, leadership and patriotism.
“It is always a pleasure for the local DAR chapter to recognize such outstanding students and patriots,” the local chapter states in a press release.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote patriotism, preserve American history, and support better education for our nation’s children.
Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 165,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world’s largest and most active service organizations.
For more information visit DAR.org.
