DAR recognizes 22 students with youth awards

At the May meeting of the Poage Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the group honored 22 elementary and high school students from Boyd, Carter and Greenup Counties.

The Poage Chapter announced its youth award winners.

Six senior students received Good Citizens Awards: Ronald Major LeMaster (Greenup County), Lauren Brooke Knipp (West Carter), John Logan Patrick Jenkins (Fairview), Cavin Bryant Fitzpatrick (Ashland), Hope Elizabeth Smallwood (Boyd County) and Brody Rylan Kilburn (Russell). Kilburn is the overall Good Citizen Award winner.

The DAR Good Citizens program and Scholarship Contest is intended to encourage and reward the sparkling qualities of good citizenship in students, according to DAR. The program is open to all high school seniors enrolled in public or private schools. The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the following qualities: dependability (truthfulness, honesty, punctuality, etc.), service (cooperation, helpfulness, responsibility, etc.), leadership (personality, self-control, initiative, etc.) and patriotism (unselfish loyalty to American ideals).

Two JROTC Outstanding Cadets were honored: Christian Day (Ashland) and Allison Geyer (Boyd County). The selection of the student to receive the JROTC award is chosen by the principal or the unit commander and must have demonstrated loyalty and patriotism and earned a record of military and scholastic achievement during their participation in a JROTC program. They must be in the upper 25% of their JROTC classes and in academic subjects. They must show qualities of dependability and good character, adherence to military discipline and leadership ability.

Two elementary home-school students were honored for their American history essays: Robert Johnson (fifth grade) at Classical Conversations Homeschool won first place at chapter level and first place at State for his essay on John Phillip Sousa. Sophie Wright (fourth grade) at Maplecrest Academy was the first-place chapter winner.

Three students at Ashland Middle School were honored at their school ceremonies for their stamp design entries in the Junior American Art Contest. These entries reflected the theme of “Sparkling in the Stars: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle.” Emma Kate Hieneman (sixth grade) won third place nationally, Camrynn Elise Gillum (seventh grade) won second place in division, and Destiny Faith Gregg (eighth grade) won the Poage Chapter first place.

National winners in the Junior American Art Contest, Community division, were nine students at the Russell High Technical and Welding School who collectively designed and created a welding sculpture reflecting the theme of “Sparkling in the Stars: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle.”

Students creating the winning entry: Mason Massie, Jaden Skeens, Nick Adams, Jake Lodwick, Trey Profitt, Joe Kaczmarczyk, Jesse Smith, Jocelyn Salley and Morgan Hensley. Members of the group will be traveling to NSDAR Continental Congress in Washington, D.C., this month to receive a national award and display the art.