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By Janet Dovidio

NEWS@THEWOODSTOCKINDEPENDENT.COM

Local high school students donated their time and talents to many area charities during recent months.

Each year, member of the Woodstock North High School National Society are asked to design and implement their own service projects. This year members were assigned to small groups that chose ways to serve organizations that provide essential services to the community.

Each group had six to eight members who needed to find “contactless” forms of service to comply with current pandemic protocols.

NHS advisers Jillian Barry and Patti Baltes guided the students in their choices.

“Over the time that Patti and I have been advisers for National Honor Society, the service projects are always one of our favorite things,” Barry said.

Last year, students organized a Super Bowl party at a local nursing home “that was a lot of fun for both residents and students alike,” she said.

“That was before the restrictions of a pandemic,” Barry said. “This year, other groups are working with local fire stations, elementary schools, the hospital, and nursing homes.”

One group decided to create notes of encouragement and thankfulness for the clients of the Woodstock Food Pantry. Over their holiday break, students wrote and illustrated more than 300 notes they delivered to the pantry on Jan. 18. Pantry volunteers will distribute the notes, many of them in Spanish, in the coming months to client families.

“Our NHS group as a whole has been doing smaller projects in conjunction with Valley Hi [Nursing Home],” Barry said. “Students created over 100 beautiful posters for the residents to hang up in their rooms around the holidays, and many members created fidget fabrics for the dementia patients.”

Student officers who lead the monthly meeting on Google Meet are Kyla Grismer, president; Jackson Granat, vice president; Maggie Thomas, secretary; Milly Wollpert, treasurer; and Jason Thurow, communications/technology director.

“It’s amazing to see the students step up in terms of leadership and do some really amazing things for our community,” Barry said. “Patti and I are really proud of the leadership and commitment we have seen from our students this year.”

Alexandria Muschong of Woodstock was named to the president’s list for achieving a perfect 4.0 GPA during the fall 2020 semester at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill.

Grace Huelsman of Woodstock has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2020 semester at Central College in Pella, Iowa. The honor is awarded to full-time students who achieve a 3.5 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale while taking 12 or more graded credit hours for the semester.

More than a dozen Woodstock-area residents were among 1,300 students who received degrees from Northern Illinois University in December.

They were:

Wonder Lake – Meghan Johnson, Bachelor of Science in human development and family sciences; Steven Kroll, Bachelor of Science in psychology; Allison Marshall, Bachelor of Science in accountancy; Alyssa Salcedo, Bachelor of Science in nursing; and Joseph Summers, Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering technology

Woodstock – Ana Andrade, Master of Arts in teaching in elementary education; Joseph Baroni, Bachelor of Science in mathematics; Nicole Blackman, Master of Science in education in clinical mental health counseling; Linda Bolanos, Bachelor of Science in accountancy; Alexa Dechant, Bachelor of Science in education, special education-learning behavior specialist; Ivan Figueroa-Ramirez, Bachelor of Science in economics; Mariana Kostova, Bachelor of Arts in English; Amy Peralta, Master of Public Health in public health, health services management; and Daniel Shook, Bachelor of Science in sport management

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