HOBY Student Selected At SHS to Represent Seward at State’s 2012 Seminar this Summer.

By Kolterman, Clark on October 05, 2011

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The annual selection process is complete to select a Seward High sophomore student leader for the Nebraska Hugh O” Brian Youth Leadership Seminar scheduled for this summer.  Faith Bohaty was selected to represent Seward High. First alternate for the award is Josh Rolfsmeyer. 

Each student was asked to write about their leadership opportunities and ways they have demonstrated service to others.  Along with the written application, each student was personally interviewed by the selection panel.  The judges for the award were Jan Niemeyer of Garland, Tayor Baumiester, a freshman at Concordia University and Sarah Wilkinson, a senior at Concordia University. 

The selected honoree from Seward will represent the high school in a week-end long youth leadership seminar involving one sophomore graduate from almost every high school in Nebraska.  The event is free for the student and funded locally.  Each delegate is to return to their high school and offer new leadership skills, achieved at the HOBY seminar.  Seward High has participated in the HOBY leadership program since HOBY’s inception in Nebraska.

Students that competed for the award included Faith Bohaty, Elizabeth Snyder, Josh Rolfsmeyer, Callie Heath, Hannah Moody, Emilie Siebrandt and Siana Dyell. 

The program is funded and underwritten by the School District of Seward High Ability Learner Program, Seward High School, and locally by the area service clubs through their national organizations including the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club, GFWC Seward Junior Women’s Club, Seward Rotary Club, Seward Kiwanis Club and Seward Optimist Club.  Clark Kolterman served as the local representative chair for the selection process.