TITLEHOLDER BIOGRAPHY
NAME: Beth Peddle
HOMETOWN: St.John's
AGE: 16
AMBITION: To be a teacher or a doctor without borders.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Horizons/Fry Family Scholarship for Leadership
- Student of the Year (2006)
- Principals List (Grades 8-11)
- Worsley Scholarship for Academics (Grade 10)
- Highest Overall Average (Grade 10)
- Student of the Month (October 2007)
- 1st in school-wide French Public Speaking (Grade 10)
- 1st in Cayley Math Contest (Grade 10)
- Grade 10: Highest Academic Average Histoire du Canada, English, French
- Grade 9: Highest Academic Average for LFI, Literary Award for Prose, Excellence for French Immersion
- Kiwanis Music Festival: 2 Gold Awards, 4 Silvers, and 4 Bronze (2002-2007), Achieved Honors for Grade 2 and Grade 7 Practical Piano Exams, and for preliminary, Grade 1 and Grade 2 theory exams.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT / VOLUNTEER WORK
- Volunteer weekly with a program that teaches mentally and physically disabled children to swim.
- Participated in Oxfam events; Hospital Bed Race for the Millennium Goals, Stand Up Against Poverty, and Demonstration for World Sanitation Day.
- Attended MedQuest
- Participated in Kiwanis Music Festival Annually (2002-2008)
- In-School Awareness Campaign for Kids Help Phone (2006)
- Volunteer at the Developmentally Delayed Unit at St.Matthews
WORK WITH CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
- Organized the St.John's Gulu Walk (2007)
- Coordinate the War Child Canada Club at Beaconsfield Junior High (ran cookbook, calendar, Walk Against War, ticket draw, and "Keep the Beat" project)
- Organized fundraising for and purchase of 8 Happy Tree Gifts and two gifts for needy family in Kilbride.
- Coordinated in-school Operation Christmas Child
- Assistant coordinated World AIDS Day Presentation
- Bishops College Team Captain for Run for the Cure 2007 (Participant since 2005)
- Participated in the organization of two food drives, and a turkey fund collection (St.Vincent de Paul).
- Acoustic Show in support of the Kirby House
CLUBS AND GROUPS
- War Child Canada Club (Group Leader)
- Chamber Choir
- Senior Girls Basketball Team (Assistant Captain)
- Memorial University Horizons Leadership
- Student Council (Vice President)
- Girls Chamber Choir
- Youth Action Committee
2008 Pageant Results
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