Caroline is applying to Oberlin, Carlton and UNC-Chapel Hill and hopes to someday play with a symphony and possibly teach. Steve is well-known in local music circles and presently both teaches private voice and piano lessons and serves as organist and choir director at Mills River Presbyterian Church. For the past 11 years, Steve and Mary have ministered voluntarily one Sunday each month at the Black Mountain Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center, being recognized for this work five times since 1986 with the Governor's Voluntethis work five times since 1986 with the Governor's Volunteer Service Award. When you consider that Caroline is still a teenager, her own record of involvement is similarly impressive. She is an active member since 1994 of the YMCA Leader's Club and currently its vice-president.
Membership requires committing to a minimum of three hours of volunteer service a week.
She has also been a lay reader at St. James since 1993. This fall Caroline won the BRCC Educational Foundation's Ben Jones Scholarship for Volunteer Service, plus she was selected as one of seven delegates from Henderson County to attend the Governor's Summit on Volunteerism in January. By this time you probably know I am enthusiastic about this pair. My fear is always that, in a written application packet, we fail to communicate how truly deserving a particular candidate is. Suffice it to say that BRCC has never submitted two more deserving nominees.