Each Year the Amanda Young Foundation offers potential student leaders across the state the opportunity to participate in a camp at Penrhos College during the April School holidays. This camp encourages collaboration, role modelling and communication as the students work together on a variety of topics embracing their leadership potential.
From a highly competitive field we are fortunate enough to have two Peter Moyes students selected to attend this year’s camp. We would like to congratulate Year 11 students, Lucy Fitzpatrick and Anirudh Mehta for their selection and wish them all the very best as they attend this exciting leadership camp, working with the foundation to help with its mission of raising awareness for meningococcal disease.
Amanda Young was an inspiring young woman possessing many skills and passions. Amanda was talented and hard working in sports, academics and music. Throughout her life Amanda excelled in competitive sport and she had a desire to pursue her dream of a future in Environmental Science. She began her sporting career early, representing the State in Calisthenics in 1986. She attended Gosnells Primary School and in her final year was Head Girl and Dux. Amanda attended an Inter-varsity Rowing Regatta in Penrith in October 1997, where she tragically contracted meningococcal disease and died at the tender age of 18.
However Amanda’s legacy lives on. Her parents, Barry and Lorraine Young, established the Amanda Young Foundation in 1998 with the aim of reducing deaths in WA from meningococcal disease, and supporting survivors of the disease. The Foundation is also committed to supporting the development of young people into Western Australia's future leaders.
By Mr Larry Parkes, Head of Hollows House