Mariana Vasquez, a Yadkin Early College student, wins an award from the DAR for her essay “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It.”
A Yadkin County student won second place in the annual Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizen essay contest for District IV, which Elkin, Mount Airy, Yadkinville, Dobson, Mooresville, Kernersville, Salisbury, Statesville, Lexington, and Winston-Salem.
Mariana Vasquez, a Yadkin Early College student, won the award for her essay “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It.”
The DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest, created in 1934, is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The award recognizes and rewards individuals who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. These students are selected by their teachers and peers because they demonstrate these qualities to an outstanding degree.
Vasquez is a senior at Yadkin Early College High School and ranked in the top four of her class. This Spring she will graduate as a UNC Scholar of Global Distinction at Surry Community College.
Vasquez is a pharmacy technician and volunteers by interpreting at the Hands of Hope Medical Clinic in Yadkinville. She helps with the care of her special needs sister and plans to go to nursing school to help others.
“The Jonathan Hunt Chapter of the American Revolution is proud to present this caring young woman with $150 and a Good Citizen Certificate and pin,” said Becky Dursee, Regent of the Jonathan Hunt Chapter DAR.