Project Leadership: Grant County, Indiana

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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.