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Group Seeks Money For Youth Awards
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FRIDAY, FIVE STAR Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11A
LENGTH: 1374 words
HEADLINE: GROUP SEEKS MONEY FOR YOUTH AWARDS
BODY:
An organization that encourages young people to volunteer
needs some volunteer help itself. The Missouri Congressional
Awards Council has bestowed awards on high school and
college students for community service and personal
development for six years. But it may not be able to hand
out awards next year if it can't find new corporate backing,
organizers say. ''All our funding must come from the private
sector,'' said Roy E. Saunders, president of the council.
''We get no money from the government - purposely, so that
the medals cannot become a partisan thing.'' Saunders, vice
president of Gannett Outdoor Advertising Co., said the
council would invite area corporate and business leaders to
a meeting at the Arena Club early next year to contribute to
next year's awards program. Saunders said that at least
$25,000 was needed to finance the next awards program and
that organizers would like to build a reserve of about $125,
000. The first six awards programs were financed by $75,000
raised by St. Louis businesses. A record number of 77 gold,
silver and bronze medals authorized by Congress were awarded
Monday at a lunch at the Marriott Pavilion Hotel here. The
program is co-sponsored by the Advertising Club of Greater
St. Louis. Sixty high school students received bronze medals
for 200 or more hours of volunteer service to the community
and for personal achievement and physical fitness. Sixteen
were awarded silver medals for 400 or more hours. One gold
medal was awarded for 800 hours of community service. A
bronze-medal winner, Chris Cullen, 17, said, ''I feel that
through my activities, I have developed a lot more
self-confidence and that I can do what I set out to do.''
Cullen is a senior at Nerinx Hall High School. ''I'm looking
at colleges now, and they usually look for students who are
active in their communities.'' Cullen, who plans to be a
pediatrician, has worked as an activities coordinator at
Manor Grove retirement home in Kirkwood and in the emergency
room at St. Mary's Health Center.
The complete list of medal winners follows: S Gold Medalist
Jason A. Cruse, 21, of Hannibal, Northeast Missouri State
University, Kirksville.
Silver Medallists Tiffany Clayton, 15, Northwest High
School, House Springs; Carrie Cline, 17, Francis Howell
North High School; Tracy Dulle, 17, Cor Jesu Academy; B. D.
Foulk, 16, St. John the Baptist High School; Lisa Givens,
18, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau;
Jacob Hafner, 16, DeSmet Jesuit High School; Katherine
Henroid, 15, Rosati-Kain High School; Teresa Hoell, 16, Cor
Jesu; Joshua Kennedy, 17, St. Pius X High School; Jeffery
Kreher, 17, DeSmet; Matthew Meinen, 16, Grandview High
School, Ware, Mo.; Jennifer Rayburn, 17; Wayne Sanders, 18,
and Robert Schlingmann II, 19, all of Hillsboro Senior High
School; Eric Schumacher, 16, Mehlville High School, and
Laurie Womack, 16, Cor Jesu.
Bronze Medalists Sarah Babington, 15, Mary Institute;
Bridget Barton, 16, Cor Jesu; Elizabeth Barton, 14,
Hillsboro; Gretchen Bast, 14, Cedar Hill Middle School;
Angela Berardino, 14, Kirkwood High School; William Brasser,
15, DeSmet; Traci Marie Buss, 15, St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy
High School; Tami Carter, 16, Cor Jesu; Sara Casey, 15, Cor
Jesu; Patrick Conway, 15, John Burroughs School; Chris
Cullen, 17, Nerinx Hall High School; Dennis Curtis, 14,
Bishop DuBourg High School; Robert Dillon Jr., 16,
Pattonville High School; Kathy Dollard, 15, Parkway West
High School; Rebecca Doyle, 15, Cor Jesu; Barbara Drumm, 14,
Parkway West; Todd Fitzpatrick, 14, Pattonville; Heather
Forys, 14, Grandview, Ware; Terri Forys, 14, Northwest,
House Springs; Mary Beth Fournier, 14, Cor Jesu; Jennifer
Fritsche, 15, Lindbergh High School; Rachel Gallant, 14, The
Principia; Jennifer Gau, 16, Cor Jesu; Bridget Hamman, 14,
Cedar Hill; Carrie Heitman, 15, Pattonville; Madeline
Hinrichs, 14, Kirkwood; Michelle Hunt, 16, St. Pius X; Darin
Johnson, 15, Hillsboro; Jennifer Johnstone, 15, Webster
Groves High School; Katherine Karn, 14, Cedar Hill; Tim
Keller, 17, Chaminade College Preparatory School; Diana
Killian, 15, Crystal City High School; Ami Leiendecker, 17,
and Maureen McGrath, 16, both of Cor Jesu; Amanda Meinen,
14, Grandview, Ware; Jason Meyer, 16, Academy of Math &
Science; Laura Mueller, 14, Kirkwood; Misty Marie Mueller,
15, Mary Institute; Dionne Newton, 15, Parkway South Senior
High School; Jessica Nieva, 15, Cor Jesu; David Nolan, 18,
DeSmet; Kelly Peck, 16, Cor Jesu; Harold Palmer Jr., 17, St.
Louis Priory; Jacqueline Prosperi, 17, Cor Jesu;
Victoria Recano, 15, Cor Jesu; Amy Roberts, 14, Grandview, Ware; Mary
Kate Ryan, 15, Cor Jesu; Cheri Ann Schuessler, 16,
Hillsboro; Julie Sieckhaus, 17, Nerinx Hall; Gina Smith, 17,
and Christina Steck, 16, both of Cor Jesu; Carrie Tellor,
14, and Tricia Tellor, 17, both of Kirkwood; Jennifer-Ann
Venker, 17, Cor Jesu; Jamie Washington, 14, Selvidge Junior
High School; Krista Wendt, 17, and Kathleen Wikete, 16, both
of Cor Jesu; Sandra Williams, l4, Northwest, House Springs;
Patricia Williamson, 16, Hillsboro, and Julie Marie Winkeler,
17, Cor Jesu.
GRAPHIC: Photo; PHOTO by Robert Holt Jr./Post-Dispatch ...
Congressional Award winners (from left) B.D. Foulk, Jason A.
Cruse and Chris Cullen. Cruse, of Northeast Missouri Satate,
won a gold medal: Foulk, of St. John The Baptist High
School, took a silver; and Cullen, of Nerinx Hall High
School, won a bronze.
LANGUAGE: English
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