L-B junior named 'Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student'
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
WEST BRANCH, Iowa -- Michael Beavers Jr., a junior at Lawton-Bronson Junior-Senior High School, has been named a Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student for organizing a community effort to make a Sergeant Bluff home more accessible for two brothers to operatie their wheel chairs.
The Uncommon Student Award program seeks to identify uncommon Iowa high school juniors. Applicants are chosen on the basis of project proposals and letters of recommendation.
The title of Beavers' project is "It's a Brotherhood: A United Effort That Will Change the Way Two Brothers With Muscular Dystrophy See Life Every Day." The project is making the home of Brad and Lori Lukken at 406 D St. in Sergeant Bluff more accessible for their sons Tony and Billy Lukken who both suffer from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Beavers is among 15 high school students from across Iowa who are finalists in the 11th year of the Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student Award program.
Beavers, the son of Michael and Wendy Beavers of Kingsley, Iowa, is the second student from Lawton-Bronson to participate in the program. His sister, Sheenah, was a member of the Class of 2001.
Merci Wolff, a graduating senior at Sioux City West High School, participated in 2007.
Beavers will go to West Branch in late June for a weekend of activities at the Hoover Presidential Library-Museum and National Historic Site. He will return Oct. 11 to speak about his project. Each Hoover Uncommon Student will receive $1,000 at that time.
A selection committee will choose the winners of three $5,000 scholarships to be used at an accredited two- or four-year college or university anywhere in the country.
The Uncommon Student Award program seeks to identify uncommon Iowa high school juniors. Applicants are chosen on the basis of project proposals and letters of recommendation.
The title of Beavers' project is "It's a Brotherhood: A United Effort That Will Change the Way Two Brothers With Muscular Dystrophy See Life Every Day." The project is making the home of Brad and Lori Lukken at 406 D St. in Sergeant Bluff more accessible for their sons Tony and Billy Lukken who both suffer from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Beavers is among 15 high school students from across Iowa who are finalists in the 11th year of the Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student Award program.
Beavers, the son of Michael and Wendy Beavers of Kingsley, Iowa, is the second student from Lawton-Bronson to participate in the program. His sister, Sheenah, was a member of the Class of 2001.
Merci Wolff, a graduating senior at Sioux City West High School, participated in 2007.
Beavers will go to West Branch in late June for a weekend of activities at the Hoover Presidential Library-Museum and National Historic Site. He will return Oct. 11 to speak about his project. Each Hoover Uncommon Student will receive $1,000 at that time.
A selection committee will choose the winners of three $5,000 scholarships to be used at an accredited two- or four-year college or university anywhere in the country.
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