Leah is a member of Ambassador Troop 20520 led by Fran Marofsky and Laura Kallop and is a recent Girl Scout Gold Awardee. She has been very active in Girl Scouts for 12 years, starting in first grade. Leah is the daughter of Fran and Mike Marofsky of Cranberry Township. This past spring, she graduated from Seneca Valley High School and will attend IUP in the Fall having been accepted into their nursing program.
For her Gold Award project, Leah partnered with Cranberry Place Skilled Nursing Facility. She wanted to incorporate her love for music by creating a music therapy program for the residents at this facility. To do so, Leah split her project into two parts. The first included three live performances in which she lead other high school musicians, as well as herself, to play their instruments for the residents once a month for an hour. After all three performances were successfully completed, Leah collected 170 CDs and 8 CD players donated by family and friends which she used to create a music cart.
With the help of her Grandma Pat Cousins and her parents, she constructed four wooden CD racks which she then painted and decorated to hold the CDs on a metal cart provided by Cranberry Place. This music cart will then be taken room to room by volunteers so that the residents have unlimited access to music during their stay at Cranberry Place.
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Leah is a shining example of the compassion and respect that Girl Scouts have toward our elders and mentors. Cranberry Area Girl Scouts wish Leah all the best as she moves onto her college studies and closer to a life of service in the nursing field. Congratulations Leah!
