Rachel Major Attends Girls State
Rachel Major represented Macon East Academy at this year’s Alabama Girls State held on the campus of The University of Alabama. Alabama Girls State continues to be the primary youth leadership program for young women in Alabama. The goal is to learn the duties, privileges, rights, and responsibilities of American citizenship in order that they may understand and participate in the functioning of their government and to help them grasp the meaning of some of the responsibilities they must assume as they become adults. The American Legion Auxiliary Girls State program operates through a nonpartisan curriculum where students assume the roles of government leaders to become mayors and county and state officials of their Alabama Girls State. Rachel was elected Mayor of her city and thoroughly enjoyed meeting new friends and had an incredible experience. We are so proud of you, Rachel, we look forward to your future leadership at Macon East Academy!
Macon East Academy senior, Will Desmarais was selected as a 2021 recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award. The DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest, created in 1934, is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. This award recognizes and rewards individuals who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. These students are selected by their teachers and peers because they demonstrate these qualities to an outstanding degree. Will was also chosen as an AISA Studen Government Association Leadership Scholarship recipient. Will is an outstanding academic student, student manager for the football and baseball teams, and serves as an officer and member in several school organizations. Will plans to attend Auburn University in the fall and major in Business Administration.
Seniors, Tanner Moore and Georgia Blaze represented Macon East Academy at the 62nd annual Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award ceremony. Since 1959, the objective of the Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award program has been to recognize Christian leadership in athletics and to encourage and inspire others to emulate the man whose memory is perpetuated by this award. Each year coaches nominate senior athletes who have displayed the most outstanding qualities of Christian leadership in athletics and possess the following qualities: strong character, dependability, 100% effort, team leadership, church leadership, school leadership, and scholastic leadership. Freshman students who exhibit these same qualities are also invited to attend the annual banquet and be recognized. This year, Katie Kitchens and Chase Lashlee represented Macon East Academy as 8th-grade certificate recipients. We are very proud of Tanner, Georgia, Chase and Katie who are all honored to be part of a prestigious group of Hitchcock nominees.
Macon East Academy senior, Tanner Moore recently received the Pike Road Ladies Auxiliary Community Service Award. He is the son of Scott and Leigh Ann Moore of Cecil, Alabama. He plans to attend Southern Union College and later transfer to Auburn University and major in Wildlife Ecology/Forestry. Working outdoors is his dream job.