BASH Student Named Silent Servant Scholarship Recipient

[Reprinted from "It BEARS Repeating," Boyertown Area School District digital newsletter.]

Camryn Urbassik is Boyertown Area Senior High’s first recipient of the Silent Servant Scholarship Award by the Peter R. Marsh Foundation. 

This scholarship is intended for students who recognize their intrinsic value, have developed empathy, maintain emotional well-being, foster a peaceful school environment, and have made significant career decisions. 

BASH selected Camryn for her compassion and understanding. 

She aspires to become an Elementary School teacher and has participated in our internship program at New Hanover Elementary, where she is gaining valuable experience working with students. Additionally, she has dedicated numerous hours to community service through her involvement with the National Honor Society, Green Cord, and Link Crew. We sincerely hope she will join our district as a teacher in the future!   

PURPOSE OF THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

EMPATHY IS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR

Students quickly acquire empathy, and successively compassion, by engaging in public service in their communities. Such selfless service achieves peaceful behavior at school and personal self-worth. As adults, these students become able parents and productive members of society.

The primary purpose of the Peter R. Marsh Foundation’s Silent Servant Scholarship Award is to provide high school educators with a meaningful opportunity to utilize an in-school award presentation and the Award Recipient’s personal testimony to create a developmentally-receptive audience of student-peers in a “teachable moment” to learn behavioral empathy and community service opportunities from their educators.

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