2014 winners

2014 Mel Douglass Scholarship Winners
Overall Winner:					Awarded a $6,000 scholarship
			high school			will attend
Olivia Belechak		Oakland Catholic High School				James Madison University
●	Teamed with a faculty member to start a club at Oakland Catholic to provide mentoring and other
	services to grade school students. Wrote a proposal and won a $10,000 grant to sustain the club.
●	Taught a third grade Sunday School class at St. Bede parish.
●	Represented Oakland Catholic on a wide ranging set of volunteer experiences including service
	projects in New York, Washington DC, and Jamaica.
●	Chosen by the Oakland Catholic faculty and staff several times for leadership roles in service,
	including selection to be a Lay Eucharistic Minister during her senior year.
Honorable Mention Winners:					Each awarded a $500 scholarship
Greta Bould		Oakland Catholic High School				University of Delaware
●	Completed many years of service in various roles at Calvary Episcopal Church, including serving
	as a Sunday School teacher for first graders, a camp counselor, a leader in the church youth group,
	and an acolyte.
●	Actively volunteered at Oakland Catholic, including a leadership role on a project in Washington, DC.
Shannon Edgar		Oakland Catholic High School				Catholic University
●	Provided volunteer support to the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in both administrative roles,
	such as marketing and fundraising, and hands on roles caring for dogs. Also cared for horses.
●	Served the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association as an event planning volunteer.
●	Volunteered at the Edgewood Day Care Center.
Katie Manges		Oakland Catholic High School				Dickinson College
●	Supported various activities and events in Edgewood, including Halloween, the annual Easter Egg
	hunt, the Earth Day clean-up, and the Edgewood Youth Soccer program.
●	Volunteered at the Edgewood Day Care Center.
Ben March		Shady Side Academy				Case Western Reserve University
●	Represented Shady Side Academy by participating in two service projects in New Orleans and one
	on a Native American reservation in Arizona.
●	Volunteered during each of his four years at Shady Side with the Chiapas Connection, an activity
	that funds education for needy students in southern Mexico. Served as treasurer his senior year.
Cecily Milligan		Winchester Thurston				Allegheny College
●	Worked to convince Winchester Thurston faculty to install two community service days on the
	school calendar, which led to over 200 students volunteering in support of multiple causes.
●	Active in the Social Justice League, leading activities that raised funds for various charities.
●	Volunteered at the 4 Kids Day Care Center in Braddock and as a coach in the Edgewood Soccer League.
Kyle Olander		Shady Side Academy				Boston College
●	Selected by the Shady Side Academy faculty to be on the Untucked Committee, an organization that
	raises approxomately $30,000 per year to support Family House and other charities.
●	Served in a leadership role in the Youth Group at St. Bede Church and was particularly influential
	in getting younger students involved and engaged in the group's activities.