FOR THE DAILY SOUTHERNER
FOR THE DAILY SOUTHERNER
TARBORO —
RALEIGH — Mallory Byrum, a senior at Tarboro High School, has been awarded a Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines Memorial Scholarship. The $500 scholarship award promotes further education for graduating Girl Scout Ambassadors who have been actively registered Girl Scouts for at least three years. Recipients must demonstrate leadership within and outside of Girl Scouting, as well as individual growth through Girl Scout experiences.
Byrum is the daughter of Bobbie and Scott Byrum and has been in Girl Scouting for 13 years. She completed her Girl Scout Gold Award in 2011, as a member of Girl Scout Troop No. 480 led by Angela Bridgers and Bobbie Byrum.
She will attend East Carolina University in the fall. After completing her education, she plans to become a nurse practitioner.
Byrum credits Girl Scouting with helping her decide about future career plans. “Participating in the Girl Scout program has allowed me many opportunities to learn about various careers and to serve my community. Through those volunteer experiences, I have realized that I want to be a role model for younger children in my future career.”
For her Gold Award project, Byrum wrote a fun, easy-to-read children’s story—which was published into a book and distributed to children during Tarboro’s 250th Birthday Celebration. She also visited three afterschool day care programs in the community and emphasized the importance of reading. She continues to reinforce the importance of literacy awareness by volunteering with the local elementary school’s “Reading Buddies” program.
In her scholarship application, Byrum wrote, “I believe in making the world a better place by influencing future generations. Getting children to realize the importance of learning to read well, I believe, is the foundation for their future, and as a result, the future of the entire world.”
