Genoa’s National Junior Honor Society Helps Ronald McDonald Charity

12/14/2012

Kristen Sellan, a St. Francis DeSales student, met Genoa Middle School math teacher Katie Paolini while volunteering at Riverside Hospital. Paolini, advisor to the Westerville Genoa Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS), was impressed when she learned about Sellan’s blanket-making project for the Ronald McDonald House. She shared the information with Emma Dyer, president of NJHS at Genoa. Dyer, in turn, asked NJHS members if they wanted to get involved. They did, and the project took off. Blankets cost about twenty five dollars each to make, but the students found countless ways to fund the project. They hosted bake sales, donated money and brought in coupons. To date, Genoa NJHS members have made more than sixty blankets.