{"id":119396,"date":"2026-02-20T21:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:51:05","slug":"wyoming-area-catholic-class-of-1980-names-kindness-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119396\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Area Catholic Class of 1980 names Kindness Award recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>EXETER \u2014 The 4th Annual Wyoming Area Catholic School (WAC) Class of 1980 Kindness Award was awarded to sixth-grade student Victoria Sabetta and third grader Robert Svab. This year\u2019s awards were given in honor of the late Jasmine Mikitka, who served as a long-time secretary at WAC.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Limongelli Kon, Class of \u201980, said her classmates decided to give a special award to former WAC third grade teacher Corrine Hudzinski, \u201cwho has been encouraging kindness for over 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabetta, Svab, and Hudzinski were honored before the student body in a ceremony at the WAC gym this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Sabetta, 11, was surprised when her name was called out for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt very happy and proud, and probably my Aunt Marilyn (Krawczyk) would have been proud too,\u201d Sabetta said. \u201cShe was a good role model, and she always went to church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Svab, 8, was also surprised at being chosen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt good, it was special, and I couldn\u2019t believe I won the award,\u201d Svab said. \u201cI like to help people as much as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Vitek spoke on behalf of his 1980 WAC classmates.<\/p>\n<p>Comments were added by Eileen Rishcoff, WACS principal, sending the message, \u201cChoose to be humble, choose to be kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabetta and Svab each received $500 in scholarship money toward tuition at WAC.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; EXETER \u2014 The 4th Annual Wyoming Area Catholic School (WAC) Class of 1980 Kindness Award was awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-119396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}