Kelley Harrop, Brandenburg, gave the opening prayer and benediction May 14, to the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College graduating class of 2006-2007. Kelley will begin his first semester this summer as a junior at Western Kentucky University. He is majoring in education and working toward his bachelor’s degree. While teaching, he will then work toward his master’s degree and later enter seminary. Before he entered college, his works of inspirational fiction were published in the Canadian magazine, “The Messenger of the Sacred Heart.” As an ECTC student, Harrop was elected last year by the student body to be their student representative on the board of directors to the college. He also served as vice president in Student Government Association and was an ECTC student ambassador. As a student ambassador, Harrop gave campus tours to incoming freshmen wanting to attend ECTC and spoke to middle school students from T.K. Stone and West Point on their campus and lectured why college will help them with their future careers. Harrop also served on the ECTC campus appeals committee and the awards/scholarship committee. He also co-founded and is president of two ECTC campus organizations. The Justice League the World of Politics Club, is a nonpartisan political science club. Events the Justice League has sponsored Holocaust Remembrance Month, the important issue on the environment, the moral issue of health care, and Hardin County judge executive forum on Sept. 21, 2006. Harrop moderated the debate between Judge Harry Berry and Rik Hawkins. The Rotaract Club was co-founded by Harrop and sponsored by the Noon Rotary Club of Elizabethtown. The Rotaract Club is a community service organization which puts interest before self. The club has participated in education in an international scene by sending English books overseas to Mongolian students, to help educate them in reading English. The Rotaract Club has sent money donations to Camp Courageous, which is a camp being built that will help special needs children. Harrop is also a member of the Baptist Campus Ministry and the KEASP Club. Off campus organizations he is involved in is the Hardin County League of Women Voters, and he is a member of the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. The KFTC is a lobbying organization that contacts law makers in Frankfort over the concerns of Kentuckians. Harrop is a member of Brandenburg United Methodist Church, a United Methodist lay speaker and has coached a team in UPWARD basketball.
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