{"id":7844,"date":"2019-05-07T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:17:26","slug":"moving-forward-together-a-sweet-mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/05\/07\/moving-forward-together-a-sweet-mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward Together: A Sweet Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Elizabethtown College, you can nearly smell the sweet scent of chocolate from Hershey\u2014about 10 and a half miles down the road. The quick road trip is often made from the College to Milton Hershey School (MHS)\u2014a cost-free, private, co-residential school for children in grades pre-K through 12 from low-income families. For nearly 15 years, Blue Jays have been paired up with MHS high schoolers through a mentoring program known as Moving Forward Together (MFT).<\/p>\n

The goal of MFT is to foster opportunities for meaningful relationships between Elizabethtown College and Milton Hershey School students and promote academic achievement, emotional development, and together make contributions to the broader communities. Though, the relationships between students formed are so much more than that.<\/p>\n

Sweet Success<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, MFT celebrated the partnership at its annual senior appreciation dinner hosted by the College. Elizabethtown College senior and Sociology and Anthropology major, Quadriyyah \u201cQuad\u201d Abdul-Aziz, has a special relationship with her MHS mentee, Bridget McClatchy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known her since elementary school so getting to see her grow up and mature, and now she is heading to college, is just amazing,\u201d Quad said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quad, a 2015 alumna of Milton Hershey School, has mentored Bridget for the last eight years and can relate to her highs and lows through high school as she has walked in her same shoes.<\/p>\n

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Pictured: Quad Abdul-Aziz ’15 ’19 and Bridget McClatchy ’19.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI love Milton Hershey School, but high school can be hard at times,\u201d Bridget said. \u201cQuad is able to give me advice on how to handle different situations because she\u2019s also experienced it, and that\u2019s really helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heading to Neumann University in the fall to study pre-athletic training, Bridget knows she may not be able to go bowling or grab ice cream with Quad when she has a tough day, but she also knows she will have Quad to lean on if she is in need of a listening ear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t see her as much and I will miss her,\u201d Bridget said. \u201cBut I can always reach out and I know she will be there for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lifelong Links<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chocolatier and founder of MHS, Milton Hershey, once said, \u201cOne is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Quad reflects back on her time as a Spartan at MHS and now upon college graduation as an E-town Blue Jay, she\u2019s grateful to have made an influence on Bridget\u2019s life, just like those who have helped guide and advise her too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so proud of who Quad\u2019s become, and how she\u2019s ready to face the real world head-on,\u201d said pre-K teacher Amy Stoops \u201915.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pictured: Quad Abdul-Aziz ’19 and Amy Stoops ’15.<\/p><\/div>\n

Stoops, a Blue Jay alumna, also made the annual senior appreciation dinner to celebrate the accomplishments of her mentee, Quad. As a College student, Stoops was looking to gain more experience mentoring students so she signed up to be a Moving Forward Together mentor to an MHS student. She was paired with Quad and the two made an instant connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuad then came to E-town for college so in a way I feel like she\u2019s followed me in my footsteps,\u201d Stoops said. \u201cShe\u2019s going to do great things, and that\u2019s why it was important for me to be here and support her.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, that\u2019s the special ingredient of MFT that just evolves between mentors and mentees over time\u2013a lifelong link\u2014that no amount of miles can come between \u2026 no matter how far the distance.<\/p>\n

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Discover more about MFT at etown.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Elizabethtown College, you can nearly smell the sweet scent of chocolate from Hershey\u2014about 10 and a half miles down the road. The quick road trip is often made from the College to Milton Hershey School (MHS)\u2014a cost-free, private, co-residential school for children in grades pre-K through 12 from low-income families. For nearly 15 years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":7847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[1187,1198,1197],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-mentor","tag-mentorship","tag-moving-forward-together","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}