Jazlin Severt, an eighth grader at Trinity Lutheran School, has been selected as a National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) Outstanding Achievement Award recipient. The award comes with a $500 scholarship to the university of her choice.
“Jazi does not wait to be asked to do something. She seeks out ways to serve and to lead others in the process,” said Jeff Holt, Trinity NJHS adviser. “She works tirelessly, but also understands the importance of delegating in order to manage her own time and commitments and to provide her peers the opportunities to serve and lead in countless activities.”
The daughter of Jesse and Karli Severt of Merrill, Jazi has been one of the driving forces behind the group’s efforts to support Caps for Kids, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, Love Came Down at Christmas (which raised $2,000 for Merrill’s MAC Home), and Love for Kinsey (which raised thousands of dollars to help pay for some of the medical expenses of another student at Trinity).
Jazi is also President of the school’s Student Council, a member of its middle school leadership team (which advises the school administrator), a member of the safety patrol, and volunteers to help in the school office each morning. She is a part of the school’s praise team, sings with the adult praise team at Trinity Lutheran Church, and played volleyball at Trinity for five years as well as with the Medford Storm.
Additionally, Jazi assists in the planting and breeding of flowers with her grandparents at Barnes Creek Daylilies.
“Jazi epitomizes what it means to be a Christian servant–leader,” said Holt. “She consistently puts others before herself, and when there is a task to accomplish, she lives by the motto: ‘First to arrive – last to leave.’”
NJHS is a program of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and recognizes students who have demonstrated work to support the five pillars of NJHS: scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship in NJHS, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious student recognition program. Trinity’s chapter of NJHS has 15 current members.
NJHS’s Outstanding Achievement Award recognizes 500 students nationwide for their exceptional demonstration of the five characteristics of its membership, which numbers more than one million students.