2010 PCT PAUL RUBIN SCHOLAR

   Unlike more conventional scholarships, the PCT Paul Rubin Scholarship is not awarded solely on the basis of academic accomplishments. Paul Rubin was  President of the PCT and an social activist who lent his enormous energies in the ongoing struggle to improve the lives of ordinary people. He believed that the greatest pleasures in life come from helping others help themselves and that it is only by engaging others in the common good that we live authentically. The scholarship that bears his name is intended to reward young people who share this vision - to inspire youth to live lives of social conscience and to encourage them to see one's fate as inextricably tied to the others in one's society.  Jenna Stern is this year's Rubin Scholar.

   Jenna began to cultivate the pleasure of helping others at a very early age.  On her fifth birthday, Jenna's parents suggested that she share some of her many presents with less fortunate children.  She writes of that experience, "I did it with some reserve, but after I felt good."  Jenna has been feeling good by helping others ever since.  Whether its through her participation in Operation Santa  bringing Christmas gifts to needy kids, or raising money for children in need of bone marrow transplants, she is the first to volunteer to help.  The trustees of the Rubin Scholarship are sure that her altruism will be a habit of a lifetime.  She is a credit to her family, her school and her community.

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