Women's Philanthropic Organization Presents 2016 Citizenship Award

DAYTON-Dayton High School seniors Angie Dedloff and Kobie Sunderland-Herrin were chosen as the recipients of this year's Philanthropic Education Organization Citizenship Award at a reception, honoring them in Dayton, last Thursday.

Dedloff said she will attend the University of Hawaii at in the fall, majoring in marine biology, and studying marine conservation and dolphin behavior.

"I want to make the ocean a better place," she said.

Sunderland-Herrin said he will attend the Northwest Lineman School in Denton, Texas.

Dedloff is the daughter of Ruth and Jerry Dedloff, and Sunderland is the grandson of Pat and Terry Herrin.

The recipients of the award were selected by the high school faculty, the associated student body officers, and the P.E.O. Awards Committee, according to P.E.O. members.

Qualities of character, scholarship, and activities are the P.E.O.'s criteria for selecting the recipients for the citizenship award, and the marks of a good citizen; honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality, and punctuality are listed, as well.

The Dayton chapter of P.E.O. has been giving out the citizenship award to two high school seniors – a boy and a girl – since 1930, said Katie Leid, President of the local P.E.O. chapter.