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Oxford Rotary Club January Seniors of the Month
Oxford Area High School students Kelsey Bennett and Chris Goodrich were recently honored as Oxford Rotary Club Seniors of the Month for January.
Kelsey, daughter of Sandra and J.P. Bennett, is president of the Class of 2021 and a member of National Honor Society, National English Honor Society and the Helping Hands community service club. She is currently vice-president of the Tri-M Music Honor Society after serving as chapter historian in her junior year.
Kelsey sings with the Choral Ensemble and Bella Voce, and plays percussion in the marching band. She has had featured roles in each spring musical since her freshman year, and this year will play Ursula in The Little Mermaid.
After graduation Kelsey is interested in majoring in secondary education and is considering a career as a music or English teacher. She has applied to several colleges, and has been accepted to Elizabethtown University on a Presidential Scholarship as well as to West Chester University.
Chris, son of Sharon and Mark Goodrich, is treasurer of National Honor Society and a member of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and captain of the high school’s team in the annual Chester County Academic Competition. He is currently serving as lighting director on the technical crew for The Little Mermaid.
Since his freshman year, Chris has qualified for the annual FBLA National Leadership Conference and Competition, attending the 2018 conference in Baltimore and the 2019 conference in San Antonio, Texas, where he placed fourth in the nation for Introduction to Business Procedures. He qualified for the 2020 national conference, which was held virtually, for Political Science.
Chris recently qualified to attend and compete in the Journalism event at the 2021 Pennsylvania FBLA State Leadership Conference, a precursor to this summer’s national conference, to be held virtually this spring.
Chris guided the Academic Team to the semi-final round of last year’s competition, and is working to organize a middle school division of the event. He also participates on Oxford’s team in Pennsylvania QuizBowl, which placed third in the 2019-20 competition.
Chris recent organized a special charity quiz tournament for high school academic teams in Chester County, with participation fees raising $200 for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Chris is currently enrolled in AP Calculus BC, AP U.S. History, AP Statistics, AP Computer Science A and AP English 12, and is self-studying for the AP Macroeconomics exam. He has applied to several colleges to major in finance or economics, and was recently accepted to the honors program at Penn State, University Park.
