BW’s Malik, Watkins attend Distinguished Young Women Program

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

The Dis­tin­guished Young Women Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram will be held on Feb­ru­ary 22 and 23 in Mount Vernon.

Twenty-three Ohio high school senior girls will arrive in Mount Ver­non on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 16, for a wel­com­ing cer­e­mony that kicks off a week filled with rehearsals, lun­cheons with var­i­ous ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions, and numer­ous speak­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties; and rep­re­sent­ing Delaware County will be Big Wal­nut High School seniors Ali Malik and Kee­ley Watkins.

This year’s pro­gram will be Ohio’s 55th anniver­sary, with Mount Ver­non serv­ing as host city for 40 years. It will also be the third year for the program’s new name and brand image: Dis­tin­guished Young Women – Schol­ar­ship, Lead­er­ship, Talent.

Cash schol­ar­ships total­ing $18,500 will be awarded to the par­tic­i­pants; and approx­i­mately $2 mil­lion in col­lege schol­ar­ships are also awarded as part of the schol­ar­ship program.

Serv­ing as pro­gram emcees will be Dana Ullom-Vucelich and her daugh­ter Jenna Vucelich, who are both past par­tic­i­pants of the program.

The pageant shows begin at 8 p.m. on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 22, and at 7 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23.

Tick­ets are avail­able for Fri­day and Sat­ur­day evening’s per­for­mances. For more infor­ma­tion, go to < mtvarts.com >, or call 740/399‑5116.

The 56th annual Dis­tin­guished Young Women National Finals will be held in Mobile, Alabama, in June.

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