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Tag: Student Character and Leadership

Fourth-Annual Girls Grace Event Inspires Unity

Two hundred female Milton Hershey School high school students attended the school’s fourth-annual Girls Grace Conference on Oct. 18-19. The lock-in style event featured workshops focused on leadership and character...

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MHS Eighth-Graders Learn Good Decision-Making During Freedom Writers Visit

On Monday, Oct. 7, two former students from the original Freedom Writers, Cynthia Ray, and Tony Becerra visited Catherine Hall to speak to Milton Hershey School eighth-grade students about making...

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Students Learn Perseverance and Kindness Through Motivational Speaker Presentations

On Sunday, Sept. 22, Milton Hershey School welcomed well-known national youth motivational speakers Brian Williams and John “PUSH” Gaines to campus as part of the school’s annual Perseverance Through Adversity...

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Milton Hershey School Employees Kick Off 2019-20 Co-Pilot Mentoring Program

On Wednesday, Sept. 11, 78 Milton Hershey School employees met with 106 newly enrolled elementary-aged students to kick off the Co-Pilot Mentoring program for the 2019-20 school year. Milton Hershey...

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Zac Brown Band Percussionist Shares Life Lessons and Music with MHS Students

On Thursday, Aug. 29, world-renowned percussionist and Zac Brown Band member Daniel De Los Reyes visited with the Milton Hershey School high school band hours before taking the concert stage...

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Joel Smith ’02

Joel Smith ’02 enrolled at Milton Hershey School from Sicklerville, New Jersey as a sixth-grader. With a single mother raising four children and going to college, Joel found MHS as...

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Jared T. Ross ’18

From camping in Badlands National Park in South Dakota to buying a cowboy hat in Montana, Jared T. Ross’ ’18 summer was nothing short of adventurous. Jared was exactly one-month...

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Jamison “Mason” Langguth ’06

Jamison “Mason” Langguth ’06 enrolled at Milton Hershey School as a seven-year-old. Having come from a home that lacked stability, MHS allowed him to see the young man he wished...

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Senior Student-Athletes Recognized for Their Efforts On and Off the Field

Seniors Michelle Rodgers and Darius Briggs were recognized as C.S. “Pop” Kelchner nominees at the Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame’s 36th Annual Prayer Breakfast on May...

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Perseverance and the Days I Will Always Remember

By Helena Taylor, a senior at MHS For the most part our eyes allow us to see. As an essential body part, our eyes give us vision which allows us...

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