Bio for Miss Scioto Valley - Megan Wombacker
Bio for Miss Scioto Valley 2007/2008 – Megan Wombacker
Megan Wombacker is the daughter of Carl and Cynthia Wombacker of Hermitage, Pennsylvania. She has five loving sisters and one very special brother: Erin (24), Lauren (20), Jaclyn (18), Alyson (14), Shannon (13), and Jordan (11). She is a senior at Kent State University and holds a 3.8 GPA while pursuing a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting, Marketing, and Management. While finishing her undergraduate degree in only three and a half years, she is also enrolled as a full-time graduate student in Kent State University’s Masters of Business Administration program. Megan will travel to Switzerland and France on an International Business Experience in May. She will graduate with her MBA in December 2008.
Megan is an Honors student and has received several honors scholarships including: Kent State University’s Honors Achievement Scholarship, Oak Rubber-Dale Scholarship, President’s Scholarship, Joyce Kiniki Scholarship, and the Honors Business Administration Scholarship. The past two years, Megan has been recognized as an outstanding accounting student and awarded the prestigious Nobby Lewandowski Accounting Scholarship. Because of her academic achievement, she has been recognized on the University’s President’s List, Dean’s List, National Honor Roll, and National Deans List. Last year, she was invited and inducted into the Business Honors Fraternity, Beta Gamma Sigma, which recognizes the top business students across the nation.
The past three years, Megan has been actively involved on Kent State’s campus. She has been a member of the international business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, for seven semesters. Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities. In the fraternity, Megan has served as Pledge President, Head of Rules and Regulations, Head of Internal Affairs, and Vice President of Professional Activities. With her involvement, she was nationally recognized and awarded with the Beta Pi Chapter Scholarship. She is also a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Business President’s Roundtable, College of Business Colleagues, Accounting Association, and Intramural Softball Team. In the summer, Megan was hired with the number one accounting firm, Ernst & Young in their auditing department. She hopes to use her business knowledge to one day own and operate an optometry clinic.
Megan has also spent a lot of her time volunteering in various not-for-profit organizations. Upon the sudden death of her friend due to a drunken driving accident, she raised funds on campus for the Tiffany Telleni Scholarship Fund, on behalf of her family, in order to recognize an outstanding high school student. She also has volunteered with Relay for Life and the fight against cancer since the eighth grade. With her fraternity, she has aided in writing letters to the troops, participated in Kent’s Art in the Park, donated to the Hurricane Relief Project, and local food drives. Yet, her passion is to volunteer with various organizations pertaining to eye care.
Megan’s Platform, “Giving Voice to Vision”, focuses on the importance of educating children and adults across our state and nation about the importance of eye care. She became passionate about this at a very young age because her youngest sister was born nearly blind and an optometrist did not catch her disadvantage until she was four years old. Because of this, she developed a serious learning disability that will affect her for the rest of her life. Megan is determined to make the nation aware of eye care negligence and the importance of screening, detecting, and treating eye problems. Three years ago, she created “Eye Care, You Care, We Care OUTREACH” in which she single-handedly collected and donated 500+ used eye glasses to third world countries. Megan is also a volunteer and representative of Prevent Blindness Ohio, a subsidiary of Prevent Blindness America. Megan has served as Team Leader for the Light the Night for Sight Committee and helped raise nearly $8,000 in the Northeast Ohio Chapter. She also is a children’s reader in libraries across Northeastern Ohio’s “Wise About Eyes” kiosk, and co-chair of the Community Service Committee.
At age four, Megan began dancing in tap, jazz, and ballet. She has studied at the Linda Lucas Studio, Regional Ballet Company, and Studio 136. She was captain of her high school dance team, teacher at the Linda Lucas Dance Studio, dance line member of the Bicentennial Band, captain of cheerleading, and youth cheerleading choreographer.
Megan enjoys dancing, reading, working out, singing, piano, and blogging. Above all, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends. She hopes to accomplish many things during her year as Miss Scioto Valley including many appearances, and working with legislation in Ohio for mandating eye care.
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