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By Amy Silver
Special to the Rappahannock Newsletters
For Carol Lucking, one of the most exciting moments during her tenure as Starfish Coordinator was when the very first “graduate” of the Starfish Mentoring Program turned 18 and, to the surprise of many who had known her, was on her way to college. “This young woman going off to college to study art, her passion, was in large part due to the work her mentor did with her. The mentor offered her the opportunity to see herself in a college situation for the first time,” said Lucking.
As the number of long-term successful mentoring pairs increases, more and more of the young people served by the program are now in high school, on the threshold of going out into the world. “Mentors make a one-year commitment to be in the program, but frequently they get so “hooked’ by the rewards of the relationship that they stick with it for two, five, or even more years,” continued Lucking.
Rappahannock County High School Principal Roger Mello has seen the impact of these long-term successes first-hand.
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