Marquette Catholic High School Student Receives Good Citizen Award

ambrose-haas-good-citizen-awardMarquette Catholic High School is proud to announce that senior Ambrose Haas, the son of Mr. Tim ’83 and Mrs. Andrea Levendowski ’83 Haas, has been awarded the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award.

Ambrose was honored by the LaPorte Chapter of the DAR at a banquet on March 7th.

The DAR Good Citizens program and scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior class students enrolled in accredited public or private secondary schools.

The procedure for selecting a DAR Good Citizen is for the school faculty and students to select one senior who has demonstrated, to an outstanding degree, the qualities of a good citizen: dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. Only one student per year may be honored as a school's DAR Good Citizen. This student is then eligible, if he/she wishes, to enter the DAR Good Citizens scholarship contest. Program and essay contest materials are provided to a participating school by a local DAR chapter.

DAR Good Citizens who enter the scholarship contest are eligible for the awards beyond the chapter level. Each state winner receives a monetary award and a special state DAR Good Citizens pin and certificate. The national winner will be invited to Washington, D.C. to attend DAR Continental Congress and will be awarded a college scholarship. Each of the eight national division (multi-state groups) winners will also receive a cash award.

Marquette Principal, James G. White states, “Of course we are proud of Ambrose. He is certainly a well-rounded young man. He is the salutatorian of his graduating class, he is a student-athlete and has a focus on service to his community. What more could you ask for in a young man. He is a true representation of a Marquette student and we are excited to see what his future holds.”