Meet the Match: Terri Smith and Tiffany

Meet Tiffany, a freshman at Mississinewa High School, and mentor Terri Smith who meet each week in Project Leadership’s mentoring program, which matches community volunteers with local Twenty-first Century Scholar students.

Tiffany

Career goals: Diagnostic medical sonographer; church minister for toddlers/youths.
Favorite subject: English.
Favorite book: The Road of the Dead.
Hobbies/Interests: Swimming.
Family: Parents, Mike and Donita Melick; siblings, Teri and Travis.

Terri Smith
Career goal: Homemaker.
Favorite subject: English.
Favorite book: How can I choose? To Kill a Mockingbird; The Chosen; Some Wildflower in My Heart; Blue Like Jazz.
School: Adena HS, Frankfort, Ohio; attended Asbury College and Mercer University.
Hobbies/interests: My passion is reading.
Family: Husband, Mark (professor of history at IWU); daughters, Bethany Austin and Erin (husband Jay) Schneider; grandchildren, Brady and Halle Austin and Sloan Schneider.

TO LEARN ABOUT THE MENTORING PROGRAM: Visit www.projectleadership.org or call Project Leadership at 651-0650.

Meet the Match: Katherine Hardacre and KeAmber

Meet KéAmber, a freshman at Marion High School, and mentor Katherine Hardacre who meet each week in Project Leadership’s mentoring program, which matches community volunteers with local Twenty-first Century Scholar students.


KéAmber
Career goals: Singer.
Favorite subject: Social studies.
Favorite book: Junie B. Jones.
Hobbies/interests: Dancing, singing.
Family: Mom, Kimberly; Dad, Earnest; stepsister, Shikeiyonda; Grandma, WillieMae; Grandpa, Rev. B.T. Jackson.
School: Marion High School.

Katherine Hardacre
Career: Administrative assistant at The Community Foundation of Grant County.
Favorite subject: Psychology, choir.
Favorite book: The Word (Bible).
Hobbies/interests: Reading, singing and hanging with friends; LOVE designing and sending fun packages to friends and family.
Family: Dad, Mom, two sisters, one brother (sister-in-law and future niece/nephew).
School: Rock Island High School, Illinois; IWU.

TO LEARN ABOUT THE MENTORING PROGRAM: Visit www.projectleadership.org or call Project Leadership at 651-0650.

Meet our matches every Thursday

In January, the Chronicle-Tribune and Project Leadership partnered on recognizing the mentoring program’s mentors and students in a new feature called Meet the Match. Look for the feature in every Thursday’s Chronicle-Tribune where our mentors and mentees talk about their favorite books, subjects and hobbies. Mentors may contact Project Leadership at 651-0650 to schedule a time for a photograph and to get details on how they can have their mentee profiled in this positive newspaper feature.