PARIS – Hilary A. White, daughter of Jeffrey and Cynthia White of Paris, has been named a 2007 recipient of the Saint Michael’s College Scholarship and Service Book Award. She is a student at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.

The award recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to volunteerism and leadership through community service.

White was presented the book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” (HarperCollins 2000) by Loung Ung, a 1993 Saint Michael’s College graduate who has become a widely acclaimed author. Ung gives a powerful autobiographical account, from a child’s perspective, of surviving captivity during the genocidal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. She reveals an indomitable spirit in the face of unspeakable suffering, including the loss of both her parents and two of her siblings.

Award recipients, named at schools throughout the country, are high school juniors who are inductees of the National Honor Society or an equivalent school-sponsored honors organization. They must demonstrate a commitment to service activities in high school or community organizations, taking leadership roles in these activities. Saint Michael’s is located in the Burlington area of Vermont.