Rotary Club Student of the Month: Jacqui Ferraiolo

Amity High School Senior Jacqui Ferraiolo is the Rotary Club's March Student of the Month. Jacqui, a resident of Orange, will be graduating in the top 5 percent of her class this June. She plans to attend Northeastern University to study criminal justice and forensic science. She'll get a head start on this through the Amity Internship program this summer.

Jacqui is a four-year member of the Varsity Girl’s Softball Team at Amity and she played on the varsity volleyball team in her junior year. She is involved in the high school peer tutoring program and while most tutors specialize in once subject, Jacqui is often called upon to tutor underclassmen in several subjects.

Jacqui is also the president of Students Against Destructive Decisions and has been instrumental in coordinating events such as Grim Reaper Day and most notably and recently, the health fair that will occur in April.  Outside of school you can find Jacqui volunteering at the 21st Century After-School Program, babysitting, coaching basketball, and umpiring softball games, all while carrying a primarily Honors and AP course load.

High School Guidance Counselor Courtney Campbell calls Jacqui an accomplished young woman. "Her true strengths lie beyond her achievements. Jacqui is one of the most astute and observant students I have worked with. She has an uncanny ability to assess situations and predict the outcomes, and her understanding of the human condition is much more sophisticated than that of the average high school senior," Campbell says. 

"Jacqui is always willing to help-whether it be a struggling freshman in need of geometry assistance or her sister needing to be driven from her mother’s home to her basketball practice two towns away.  Jacqui constantly and consistently puts the needs and feelings and others ahead of her own, a quality so rare in such a young person," says Campbell.