Middletown Teen Wins Scholarship For Good Works

A Middletown teen was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from a local Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) organization.

The LAOH St Bridget’s Division 4 from Monmouth County awarded the Catherine Dean Community Service Scholarship at their meeting last month to Allison Anna LaRochelle.

According to a news release:

Allison lives in the Belford section of Middletown and attends Red Bank Regional High School, Visual & Performing Arts Academy in Little Silver.

She is a member of the National Honor Society, with a 96.35 average.

She also donates the services of her band Crimson Sky to fundraising activities. She also volunteers monthly with 180 Turning Lives Around, a nonprofit organization that supports battered women.

Photo courtesy LAOH; (left to right) Patty O’Malley, VP of St. Bridget’s Division 4 and Scholarship Chair, Allison LaRochelle, Scholarship Winner, Kathy Stark, Scholarship Committee, and Alberta Brogan, President of St. Bridget’s Division 4; photo 2: Allison LaRochelle and her family