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NORWAY – Students in the National Honor Society at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School recently donated $4,000 to the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine.
The students made the donation during their May 26 induction ceremony.
Carlee-Mae Cash, National Honor Society chapter president, said, “We decided as a group that we wanted to raise awareness of cancer in our community and the local resources available to patients and their families.”
Cash, who will be a senior in the fall, said that each year the chapter picks a local organization to target all of its fundraising efforts toward, and this year’s choice was the Cancer Resource Center.
“A major part of the National Honor Society is community service and giving back to the community,” Cash said. “The OHCHS chapter made a commitment several years ago to keep our fundraising local to benefit all of the organizations that have made such a huge impact on our lives and community. Hopefully, this year we will also be able to do more volunteering now that there are less COVID-19 restrictions. Multiple members of the Oxford Hills community have been affected by cancer in some way, and the idea to raise funds for the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine was agreed upon by all of the students. We recognized and admired the work of the volunteers and employees and saw that the center was making a large difference in the lives of many within the community.”
Diane Madden, CRCofWM executive director, said, “We are very grateful to the students for this very generous donation. They are a very impressive group of students who certainly exemplify the pillars of the National Honor Society: character, scholarship, leadership and service. These monies they raised will directly benefit cancer patients and their families.”
PHOTO: From left, Kelsey Bennett, Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School National Honor Society secretary; Lucy Leonard, treasurer; Diane Madden, CRCofWM executive director; Carlee-Mae Cash, president); Brendan Palmer, vice-president. (Submitted photo)
