b'WPMA Scholarship Foundation who can be relied upon toa cashier and get tasks done in full. counter worker As a sophomore, Graceat some local struggled with mental healthfast-food restau-issues. She explained:rants. She wrote: Coming out of the Ive enjoyed COVID-19 pandemic left meworking because feeling isolated and unsureI feel it has given of where I wanted to go.me time man-When she was at her low- agement skills est point she overdosed onand real world medication. Grace wrote:experiences that After taking the medicine I realized thatwill carry on long into my future. Work-I didnt truly want to die and there was soing many jobs in customer service has much more that I wanted to achieve in life.equipped me with people skills that will I could not be more grateful that I choseallow me to make a broad network of con-life that night. Since [then], I have metnections and expand my career opportuni-some of the most incredible people, foundties. One of her managers wrote: Grace can be described as many things and the Grace Mason my passion in life, and now have accesslist could go on forever, but to name a few; to the tools I need to deal with my mentalshe is determined, driven, passionate andUtah struggles. That life experience has given memost importantly a team player.so much drive Her ability to memorizeand learnto achieve myThis fall, Grace will be new concepts easily helped Grace Masongoals and al- attending the University succeed in high school, earning her thelowed me to seeof Utah, where she plans honor of being selected as the 2023 schol- the world in ato major in Health and arship recipient fordifferent light.Kinesiology. She wrote: Utah. Grace isWhile at MapleWhen the time came for the younger ofMountain Highme to think about what I two childrenGrace playedwanted my future to look of Adamthe clarinetlike, I knew that I wanted and Amberthree years into provide for others. Mason ofthe concertFor a while, I questioned Spanishband. Shewhat exactly that was Fork. Shewrote: When Igoing to look like for me applied forwas a memberbut after seeing all of the the WPMAof concert band I held a position as firsthard work and love that Scholarshipchair clarinet and was the official bandhealthcare workers poured out during the through Firstsecretary. As secretary my duties includedCOVID-19 pandemic, I knew that I wanted Source Fuels, wheremaintaining organization of sheet musicto [work in the healthcare field]. her father serves as Senior Vice President.and instruments, taking attendance of theIt sounds like Grace has her future well-Grace graduated from Maple Mountainband, and assisting with concert produc- planned. We can see that with her determi-High School in Spanish Fork with a 3.4tions. As the first chair clarinet I acted asnation, she will continue to achieve high GPA, while taking a wide variety ofa leader of the clarinet section and wasmarks as she continues on to the Univer-classes as she explored what she wantedexpected to keep us in tune and on beat.sity of Utah this fall.to do with her life. Her counselor wrote:Grace also was a mem- SGrace notber of Future Farmers of only pushesAmerica, Stand4Kind, herselfand the Latino Club, and academi- she played one year on cally, shethe Junior Varsity Girls also thrivesLacrosse team.interper- Grace has worked steadily sonally.at a variety of jobs since Ambitiousshe was 14 years old, in-and punc- cluding as a team member tual, Graceat a pottery store, and as is a student WPMA News / Scholarship 202313'