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Kountz named DAR winner and Exchange Club Student of the Year
Feb 15, 2005 8:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Darlington is pleased to announce that senior Kristin Kountz has been selected the Northwest Georgia winner of the Good Citizens Program and Scholarship contest spnosored by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as well as the Exchange Club Student of the Year.
As one of Darlington’s top seniors, Kountz was selected to represent the School because of her extracurricular activities and strong scholarship. In addition to upholding high academic standards and maintaining her place on the Headmaster’s List, Kristin plays a role in the community, participating in Leadership Rome and volunteering with Rome Urban Ministries, the South Rome Redevelopment Corporation and Floyd Medical Center Emergency Room.
“Kristin has an unapologetic, crystalline sense of herself and the world,” said Lewis Saunders, English teacher. “She knows quickly and clearly who needs what from her and works to accommodate, but never compromises her sense of who she is and why she is doing what she is doing. When she errs, it is in taking herself to task for failing in this impossible balance – a balance between self-fulfillment and generosity unmatched in my experience.”
Kountz also plays varsity and club soccer, is a member of the varsity cross country team, is a four-year member of The Darlingtonian staff and the National Creative Society, has excelled in piano performance and chorale and is an active member in Darlington’s House System and the Senior Leadership Committee. She is also a member of Cum Laude Society, National Honor Society, Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, Mu Alpha Mathematics Honor Society, the National Math League Team and the Georgia Junior Academy of Science. She has received the AP Scholar Award, the E.L. Wright Award for Spanish and the Georgia Certificate of Merit, and has participated in the Instituto San Fernando in Cadiz, Spain, and The Oxford Tradition at St. Peter’s College, where she received the Dean’s Award.
She is the daughter of Dr. Paul and Judi Kountz of Rome, Ga.
The DAR scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior high school students in public or private school. The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. The contest consists of two parts: an application with two letters of recommendation and an essay administered within a two-hour time limit. Each of the two parts represents 50 percent of the total score and is evaluated by independent judges, with the firs tplace entry automatically forwarded to the next elvel of judging until, ultimately, the final entries are judged on the national level and the national winners are selected.
As one of Darlington’s top seniors, Kountz was selected to represent the School because of her extracurricular activities and strong scholarship. In addition to upholding high academic standards and maintaining her place on the Headmaster’s List, Kristin plays a role in the community, participating in Leadership Rome and volunteering with Rome Urban Ministries, the South Rome Redevelopment Corporation and Floyd Medical Center Emergency Room.
“Kristin has an unapologetic, crystalline sense of herself and the world,” said Lewis Saunders, English teacher. “She knows quickly and clearly who needs what from her and works to accommodate, but never compromises her sense of who she is and why she is doing what she is doing. When she errs, it is in taking herself to task for failing in this impossible balance – a balance between self-fulfillment and generosity unmatched in my experience.”
Kountz also plays varsity and club soccer, is a member of the varsity cross country team, is a four-year member of The Darlingtonian staff and the National Creative Society, has excelled in piano performance and chorale and is an active member in Darlington’s House System and the Senior Leadership Committee. She is also a member of Cum Laude Society, National Honor Society, Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, Mu Alpha Mathematics Honor Society, the National Math League Team and the Georgia Junior Academy of Science. She has received the AP Scholar Award, the E.L. Wright Award for Spanish and the Georgia Certificate of Merit, and has participated in the Instituto San Fernando in Cadiz, Spain, and The Oxford Tradition at St. Peter’s College, where she received the Dean’s Award.
She is the daughter of Dr. Paul and Judi Kountz of Rome, Ga.
The DAR scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior high school students in public or private school. The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. The contest consists of two parts: an application with two letters of recommendation and an essay administered within a two-hour time limit. Each of the two parts represents 50 percent of the total score and is evaluated by independent judges, with the firs tplace entry automatically forwarded to the next elvel of judging until, ultimately, the final entries are judged on the national level and the national winners are selected.
