Cloe Jones Honored as SVDP's Inaugural Frassati Scholar

Cloe Jones, McNicholas H.S. Class of 2022, has been selected as this year’s Frassati Scholarship winner. Cloe was selected in recognition of her involvement with the SVDP Youth Conference at McNicholas, where she served as its vice president for the past two years, as well as her demonstrated commitment to the Vincentian values of faith, friendship and service.

In a letter recommending Cloe for the Frassati award, Teresa M. Davis, Theology Educator at McNicholas, applauds Cloe’s efforts to make other students feel welcome within their group. “Cloe is the student who will make those students who may be quiet and on the sidelines have a positive encounter at our meetings and events,” Davis writes. “She is a welcoming hand of inclusion and diversity, ensuring to greet new, shy students to encourage confidence.”

Cloe says she stepped up to a leadership role in the SVDP Youth Conference at McNicholas after being involved in a car crash during her junior year of high school. “I truly understood what it was like to be here one day and gone the next,” Cloe says, reflecting on the incident. As she underwent physical therapy and recovered from speech and vision issues, Cloe says she decided she needed to use her voice for things she is passionate about. One of those things was – and still is – service to those in need.

“I felt God calling me,” Cloe says. “Now, I continue to learn more and more and see how service is truly God’s kindness and love in action.” Cloe will apply the $1,000 Frassati Scholarship to her next journey at Kent State University this fall, where she will major in marketing with a minor in social justice studies.

The Frassati Scholarship, established in 2022, is awarded annually by St. Vincent de Paul – Cincinnati in memory of Neal Johnson Lain, a dedicated young Vincentian. It is named after Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, the patron of Vincentian youth around the world.