Lindsey Adams BBB Student of Integrity

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Wal­nut High School senior Lind­sey Adams has been rec­og­nized by the Bet­ter Busi­ness Bureau Cen­ter for Char­ac­ter Ethics of Cen­tral Ohio as a BBB Stu­dent of Integrity.

Each year 265 schools within the BBB’s Cen­tral Ohio region’s 21-county ser­vice area may nom­i­nate one upper class stu­dent who per­son­i­fies high char­ac­ter through lead­er­ship, per­sonal integrity and aca­d­e­mic accomplishment.

Ten stu­dents are selected to receive a $1,000 schol­ar­ship and an award, which is pre­sented at a lun­cheon held at the Hyatt Regency in Colum­bus. Lind­sey Adams was one of the 10.

“It’s hum­bling to be selected for such a pres­ti­gious award,” Adams said. “I’m hon­ored the selec­tion com­mit­tee chose me from such an esteemed group of stu­dents from around Cen­tral Ohio.”

Can­di­date selec­tion was a rig­or­ous process, Adams said. First, she was rec­om­mended for the award by Big Wal­nut High School Eng­lish teacher and Stu­dent Coun­cil Advi­sor Angie Stooks­bury, then she had to write about com­mu­nity ser­vice and lead­er­ship, sub­mit an aca­d­e­mic sum­mary and write a crit­i­cal essay.

“Mrs. Stooks­bury wrote an amaz­ing rec­om­men­da­tion,” Adams said. “The Bet­ter Busi­ness Bureau iden­ti­fies 20 traits they value, I picked Respect for my crit­i­cal essay.”

In her essay on Respect, Adams wrote about Face­book friending.

“I am not sure becom­ing Face­book friends is nec­es­sar­ily a good sub­sti­tute for the rich and reward­ing process of bond­ing with peo­ple in the real world,” Adams wrote. “Real friends, and real rela­tion­ships, that is where the real riches are. One of the hard­est parts about being a teenager is dis­cov­er­ing who your true friends are. It is hard some­times to take a moment to lis­ten, or to really get to know the per­son next to you.”

Stooks­bury said when she thinks of a per­son of integrity, some­one who goes above and beyond, she thinks of Lind­sey Adams.

“Lind­sey bends over back­wards,” Stooks­bury said. “There are a lot of dif­fer­ent groups at the high school, but I can’t think of one per­son, stu­dent or teacher, who would not say Lind­sey Adams is a per­son of integrity. Lind­sey is one of those young peo­ple that qui­etly makes things happen.”

Lind­sey Adams is Pres­i­dent of Stu­dent Coun­cil, Pres­i­dent of the Senior Class, Pres­i­dent of the Leo Club and Pres­i­dent of Ger­man Club. She is a mem­ber of the Ger­man Honor Soci­ety (Delta Epsilon Phi), the Math Honor Soci­ety (Mu Alpha Theta),and the Social Stud­ies Honor Soci­ety. In the past she has been involved in vol­ley­ball, bas­ket­ball and cross-country.

Adams said she is unde­cided where she wants to go to col­lege, the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago is high on the list, but she does want to study eco­nom­ics and pur­sue a career in the polit­i­cal arena, pos­si­bly in elec­tion law, cam­paign strat­egy and gov­ern­ment pol­icy formation.

In the 10 years since the incep­tion of BBB Cen­ter for Char­ac­ter Ethics of Cen­tral Ohio Stu­dent of Integrity pro­gram 650 entries have been sub­mit­ted. From that pool 95 schol­ar­ships have been awarded. Lind­sey Adams is the first Big Wal­nut stu­dent to receive the honor.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 21 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.