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as well as reduce or eliminate the effects of illness or disability.
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Olivia Astle Awarded Youth Forum Scholarship
By Judy Moeckel
Town Times
The Connecticut Youth Leadership Forum has announced that Olivia
Astle of Middlefield is the recipient of the 2005 Joe Bendoraitis
Scholarship. This award brings with it a $2,000 award for college
study.
Astle, who graduates from Coginchaug this June, plans to attend
Springfield College. "I will probably focus on therapeutic recreation,"
she says, "so I can be a child life specialist." With this background,
she says she would most likely work in a hospital setting. Like
any young woman of her age, she is looking forward to the independence
of college life. The scholarship will go towards her first year
of college which, as any parent with high school-age children knows,
is phenomenally expensive.
According to Ann Mallin, Olivia Astle is a credit to the Transition
Program, which Mallin oversees at Coginchaug High School. "She is
a wonderful young lady who has a superb record of achievement,"
Mallin says. "We are all very proud that she was awarded the 2005
Joe Bendoraitis Scholarship."
Karen Halliday, who coordinates transition services at the state
level for students with disabilities, also oversees the Youth Leadership
Forum (YLF), which was started in 1999 to give high school students
with disabilities an intensive leadership training experience. The
YLF receives both public and private funds; this funding pays for
approximately 40 Connecticut students per year to attend four days
of training at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus.
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The Joe Bendoraitis Scholarship was established in memory of one
of the first delegates to attend the Youth Leadership Forum. Bendoraitis
attended YLF in 1999 as an 11th grader from Lyman Memorial High
School in Lebanon. He continued his participation in the following
years as an alumnus, eventually serving as a YLF staff member in
2001. Joe Bendoraitis died of colon cancer in 2002 at the age of
21. In his memory and honor, Karen Halliday says, the Youth Leadership
Forum established the scholarship to be given to a past YLF delegate
who plans to attend an institution of higher education.
In this way, she says, "we wished to honor Joe and his commitment
to YLF." Olivia Astle, who attended YLF in 2003, is the third YLF
delegate to receive the Joe Bendoraitis Scholarship. According to
Halliday, "she exemplifies all the key qualities that made Joe outstanding—leadership,
academic achievement, school and community involvement and most
important, an unsurpassed level of kindness, generosity and acceptance
of all individuals."
At Coginchaug, Astle is known for her skill in tennis, serving
as team captain. She has been a high honors student during her junior
and senior years and also has been recognized for her achievements
in English and Chemistry. At home, one of her hobbies is playing
the piano. Olivia and her parents will be recognized at the annual
YLF dinner scheduled for July 27, 2005 at the University of Connecticut
campus in Storrs.
Congratulations, Olivia!
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