The Rotary Club of Westerville, which sponsors a Student of the Month program, recognized recipients at a luncheon at Villa Milano held on Thursday, January 14. January students are: Ty Bealer, Westerville North High School; and Nimo Suleyman, Westerville South High School.
The purpose of the program is twofold: to recognize outstanding students who have distinguished themselves by serving their school and to expose them to the Rotary Club and its ideal of “Service Above Self.” Students selected join Rotarians for lunch every week for a month, and have the opportunity to interact with members.
Ty Bealer, a senior at Westerville North, holds a 4.4 grade point average (GPA). Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics are his favorite subjects of study. He is involved in a variety of activities at school including boys’ soccer, Key Club, boys volleyball, the Minority Scholars Program, the newspaper, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, mentoring, the National Honor Society, Math Club and the Leadership Team. In the community, he participates in Club Ohio travel soccer, in a youth group, in the I Can program, as a YMCA volunteer, as a church greeter and altar server, and as a TOPSoccer volunteer. He is a varsity sports letterman and was All-OCC Scholar Athlete of 2015. He has earned the Award of Academic Excellence during all four years of high school, along with a Community Service award. He plans to major in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering and is “looking forward to the future and what it may hold for me.”
History and Math are Nimo Suleyman’s favorite subjects. The senior at Westerville South holds a 4.3 GPA. She is French Club president and editor of her school’s Literary & Arts magazine. She is also a member of the Student Council and PRIDE. Suleyman serves as an assistant teacher at the As Salaama Center. She also volunteers at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital and the Westerville Public Library. She has earned an academic excellence award, a place on the Westerville South Honor Roll, a Cats with Class designation, and an award in the Children’s Hospital Research Institute Poster Competition. Suleyman is an IB Diploma candidate who plans to attend The Ohio State University, Wellesley College, or the University of Chicago.