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Eleven area high school seniors earn DAR awards
DAR good citizen
The Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter Regent, Barb Nemec stands with Jeffery Saether, Pecatonica’s High School’s Good Citizen; Emily Streiff, New Glarus High School’s Good Citizen; Libby Beck, Albany High School’s Good Citizen, and Christie Strait, the chapter’s Good Citizen program chairperson.

MONROE — Members of the Col. Benjamin Harrison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored some of the DAR Good Citizen Award winners from area high schools April 9 at a luncheon at Monroe’s Pizza Hut. 

The DAR award is based on recommendation of the guidance department of each high school and considers grades, community service and involvement in activities at school and in the community. All students receive a pin, certificate and a card recognizing their Good Citizen qualities. The students may also write an essay on a question of national significance that relates to current events in American history. The essay is written without references and it is submitted to a panel of judges. The local judges read each essay plus look at their classes they have chosen in high school and their grades, their activities and volunteer work in their community, their future plans, their extra-curricular activities and the Good Citizen qualities. The winner of the essay contest from each chapter is then submitted to the state level. State winners are considered in the DAR National Contest.

The local DAR Good Citizen Award recipients for 2019 are: Libby Beck, Albany High School; Alexis Leigh, Argyle High School; Hunter Bredeson, Black Hawk High School; Ann Cerjak, Cuba City High School; Bethany McDonald, Darlington High School; Linsey Pence, Monticello High School; Emily Streiff, New Glarus High School; Jeffrey Saether, Pecatonica High School; Kaylee Reuter, Shullsburg High School; Nicole Kamholz, Juda High School; and Zoe Tresemer, Brodhead High School. 

The local winner of this year’s essay contest was Bethany McDonald from Darlington High School. In addition to the pin, certificate and card she also received $100 from the chapter for her future education. 

The state winners this year were first place Scholarship Contest winner Adrian Mayagoitia from the Stevens Point Chapter; second place winner Zachary Michael Teplin from Annis Hill Chapter and, the third place winner was Jamal Louis Hanson from the Kenosha Chapter.