Student Community Service Award Honorees
Kristi Jewart

From a very young age, Kristi Jewart has shown an unusually sensitive heart for the needs of children with special challenges. She has focused most of her community service on young children and hopes to teach special education someday. She has helped in Special Education classes at Springfield High School, helped in a 4th grade classroom at Highland Elementary School, works with Special Olympics, and became a Big Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Montgomery County Elementary School Outreach Program. She is a volunteer ballet teacher at the YMCA and is a Learning Facilitator at Abington Senior High School. She also volunteered at Abington Memorial Hospital, participated in the AIDS walk and collected goods for the September 11th workers. Kristi's biggest undertaking, for her senior project, was to organize a Halloween party for children at the Salvation Army's Red Shield Shelter in Philadelphia. She is a member of Abington's Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD), Friends Against Alcohol and Drugs (FAAD), and Key Clubs and was involved in Builders Club. She possesses excellent organizational and planning skills. Kristi is an open-minded young woman with depth of character, great compassionm and curiosity.

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