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Katie Elliot, Harold D. Hodgkinson Award Recipient

Katie Elliot Receiving award

Human Services major, Katie Elliot received one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating seniors.

In the short story, “The Starfish Story” a young boy walks along the beach throwing starfish that have washed onto land back into the ocean. An older man questions why the boy is doing this since it is impossible to save all of the starfish. The boy answers, “I made a difference to this one.”

“I made a difference to this one.”

This is the mantra by which Katie Elliot, a senior human services major graduating from Northeastern this month, lives.

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