Published April 05. 2018 12:00AM
Three students from Lehigh Career and Technical Institute’s Emerging Health Professionals program recently helped raise nearly a quarter-million dollars for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
The society celebrated their accomplishments at a March 10 night gala.
The students - Madison Hoffman and Benjamin Fry, both of Northwestern Lehigh High School, and Alya Wezza, of Parkland High School - were tapped to participate in the Students of the Year campaign, which is run by the society’s Eastern Pennsylvania chapter.
Participants were selected from a pool of nominees with a demonstrated interest in volunteerism, philanthropy, community outreach and leadership.
The campaign challenged participants to raise as much money as they could for the society in seven weeks.
Top fundraisers won $2,500 and $1,000 scholarships.
Hoffman, Fry and Wezza each raised more than $10,000 for the society, but none of them were among the campaign’s biggest moneymakers.
Altogether, Students of the Year participants raised $238,991.
PRESS PHOTO COURTESY LCTIFlanked by Emerging Health Professionals instructors Veronica DeBlois, left, and Kristin Applegate, right, students Madison Hoffman, second from left, Benjamin Fry, center, and Alya Wezza, were all smiles during the March 10 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society gala.
