Clarksville Lions honor Jeff-Morgan student
Clarksville Lions Club has selected Emma Frank as its Student of the Month for April.
Frank, daughter of Rebecca Frank of Rices Landing, is a senior at Jefferson-Morgan High School, where she maintains a 4.5 grade-point average.
A four-year letterman of the Jefferson-Morgan varsity cheerleading squad, Frank serves as cheer captain. She also has lettered in track and field.
Frank is president of the National Honor Society and is organizing a walk to benefit Monongahela Valley Hospital as the organization’s annual president’s project. The walk will be held May 21. More information can be found on the Facebook page “Jefferson-Morgan NHS Walk for Mon Valley Hospital.”
As a member of the Leo Club, Frank has rung bells for the Salvation Army, participated in roadside cleanup for the Keep America Beautiful campaign and packed backpacks for the weekend food program. This year, as president of the Leo Club, she organized a letter-writing campaign for the Girls Love Mail program. Frank received the Lions Club Young Ambassador of the 21st Century Award, placing first in 2016 and second in 2015.
She also is a member of the foreign language club, Science Olympiad, Envirothon and Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Jefferson-Morgan chorus and the Penn State 4.0 Club, is an academic letterman and is a member of St. Hugh Roman Catholic Church.
Frank volunteers weekly at Uniontown Hospital, helps raise awareness for domestic violence and participates in multiple Women’s March Across America events.
She received the National Merit Scholarship Association Commended Scholar Award, an AP Scholar Award, the Robert E. Titus Educational Excellence Award, the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award, the President’s Award for Educational Excellence, the American Legion Auxiliary Award and the American Legion Patriotism Essay Contest Award.
Frank plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh to pursue a dual degree in molecular biology on the premedical track and gender and women’s studies.