Two area women studying at Ä¢¹½tv have been selected for the 2014 Foundation for Ä¢¹½tv Community Volunteer Service Award.
The Recipients of this year's award are Shannon Kovalchick, Freeport Road, Butler, and Brandy Rummel, Willow Road, Shelocta.
The award recognizes both student volunteerism at Ä¢¹½tv and the volunteer commitment of the Foundation for Ä¢¹½tv board of directors. It was established in June 1998 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Foundation for Ä¢¹½tv. To be eligible for the award, students must be engaged in volunteer community service that exceeds any requirement for a class project, organizational membership, scholarship, or other obligatory circumstance.
Kovalchick, a psychology-sociology major in Ä¢¹½tv's Robert E. Cook Honors College, is a 2012 graduate of Butler Senior High School. A student in the Honors Program in Psychology, she is a dean's list student and a provost scholar.
Kovalchick is a member of the Cook Honors College's Honors Connection service group and Tossed and Turned charity theater group, Phi Eta Sigma honor society, and the Ä¢¹½tv Residence Hall Council. She is a research assistant in psychology and a Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network student activist, and she worked on the Ä¢¹½tv Sex Education Week planning committee. In the community, she is a volunteer at the Alice Paul House shelter for domestic violence survivors.
Brandy Rummel, a child development and family relations major, is the daughter of Kathy and Glenn Rummel Jr. She is a 2010 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School.
Rummel volunteers with the Indiana County Department of Human Services and has been involved in the Suicide Task Force Walk for a Wonderful Life project, Indiana County Day of Play, the Indiana County points of dispensing system flu shot distribution, a school supply drive, the Special Populations Information Registry, Family Fun Fest, and Pennsylvania One Book.