Riverwood Student Named DAR Good Citizen

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — Riverwood International Charter School senior Hayes Miller was selected by the Sandy Springs chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, as the chapter’s 2019-20 Good Citizen. She received a plaque at a ceremony held at Riverwood on Dec. 9. As a local chapter winner, Miller now has the opportunity to advance toward a national scholarship.

“It is a great honor to have won this award, and I am highly appreciative of all the opportunities that have been available to me to make this possible,” Miller said. “For me, this is an opportunity to thank the community that I serve and that has helped shape me into the involved and active citizen that I am today.”

The Good Citizen Award and Scholarship Contest, created in 1934, recognizes high school seniors who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. In addition to exemplifying academic performance and school and community involvement, Miller wrote a compelling essay on this year’s topic “Our American Heritage and our Responsibility for Preserving It: You and your peers are our nation’s leaders of tomorrow. How would you energize America’s youth to fully engage as effective citizens?” She also submitted recommendations from two Riverwood teachers.

Miller plans to attend college on a pre-med track and hopes to subsequently attend medical school. She would like to become a surgeon. Her many school activities include serving as president of the Riverwood Model United Nations, Spanish National Honor Society, and Science Olympiad, as well as vice-president of the Science National Honor Society. She is a four-year Student Government Representative, a Riverwood Ambassador, and a tutor for biology, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and for the Riverwood Writing Center. She also participates in National Honor Society, Beta Club, and serves as the Chair of the Health Committee for the Fulton County Youth Commission.

The DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children. Membership in the National Society is open to any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.