Holly DeSaunier

Today we had our awards ceremony at school. It was so moving and sweet. Its amazing how to power to recognizing someones talents and hard work can be so uplifting. We have one award called the "Holly DeSaunier" award, it is given to a student who shows overall leadership qualities. Someone who is kind, generous, caring, compassionate, and considerate. This is the last award we give, after all the academic ones. The student who received this award also received a literacy award. His parents were proud of his literacy award as he was.. however once his name was called as the recipient of the "Holly DeSaunier" they were moved to tears. It reminded me that I can measure my success in life on the "academic" awards ( job, home, clothing, etc) or I can measure it with how I treat people. I learned today that in life there is no better award then knowing that you are the type of person people enjoy being with. Those are the awards that will stay mounted on my wall for life.