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Badin names four Braid scholars, alternates

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By Richard O Jones, Staff Writer 9:44 PM Monday, February 1, 2010

HAMILTON — Four Badin High School sophomores have been selected J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation scholars, recognizing their outstanding leadership potential, strong sense of moral values and their compassion to help the world around them.

“The J. Kyle Braid program is a tremendous opportunity for teen-agers to enhance their leadership skills,” said Brian Pendergest, Badin’s dean of students and co-moderator of the JKB program. “Students in this program are projected to be high-profile leaders as they move on in their Badin career and beyond.”

Selected students include Abby Fritsch, Kim Golden, Heath Stricker and Luke Wurzelbacher.

Those students will attend a one-week leadership camp at the Braid Ranch in Villa Grove, Colo., during late July and early August of 2010.

The Braid Ranch emphasizes leadership training through recreation, problem-solving exercises and positive peer efforts – training the students then bring to bear when they return to school. Some 20 students from around the country attend the camp during each session, boys the first week and girls the second.

Ken and Colleen Braid founded the program, named for their late son, with a mission of “helping teens take the lead.”

Four alternates were selected to be a part of the internal JKB program at Badin. They are Molly Ehrnschwender, Jonathan Kirsch, Joe Marot and Mallory Stempfley.

Contact this reporter at (513) 820-2188 or rjones@coxohio.com.

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