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Student earns Anne Frank award

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 22, 2009

TAMPA - Gina Barbato, a senior at the Academy of the Holy Names, recently was honored with the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award, given by the Florida Holocaust Museum.

Judy Genshaft, president of the University of South Florida, presented her with the award.

Barbato attributes the Academy's emphasis on helping others for her devotion to volunteerism as she has amassed nearly 600 hours of service. Throughout her high school years, Barbato has been involved with the Faith Children's Home, The Spring of Tampa Bay, the Faith Cafe and Metropolitan Ministries, and she has served as a school missionary to the Dominican Republic. But she cites her work as a counselor at Muscular Dystrophy Association Camp for disadvantaged children as having the most influence on her emotional development.

Established in 2001, the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award honors outstanding humanitarian efforts by high school juniors in public and private schools in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Sarasota and Manatee counties as a way to acknowledge the efforts of local teens taking significant actions to better the lives of another individual or group and making the world a better place.

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