Our Youth

Smoking Drains Life Charge

April 4, 2013
Above, Kristen Walsh is pictured after the assembly with her winning poster and, left to right: Sister Thomasine Stagnitta, C.S.J., Kearney’s principal; Jason Campbell, manager for marketing and special events, ENT & Allergy Associates; Sister Mary P. Hurley, C.S.J., Kearney’s Fine Arts department chairperson; Richard Effman, director of marketing for ENT & Allergy Associates; and Dr. Sheldon Palgon from the Brooklyn office of Allergy Associates. 
Above, Kristen Walsh is pictured after the assembly with her winning poster and, left to right: Sister Thomasine Stagnitta, C.S.J., Kearney’s principal; Jason Campbell, manager for marketing and special events, ENT & Allergy Associates; Sister Mary P. Hurley, C.S.J., Kearney’s Fine Arts department chairperson; Richard Effman, director of marketing for ENT & Allergy Associates; and Dr. Sheldon Palgon from the Brooklyn office of Allergy Associates.
Using her artistic talents to spread a positive message, Kristen Walsh, a junior at Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, won the Great American Smokeout print advertisement contest for New York State.
The contest, sponsored by ENT & Allergy Associates and the American Cancer Society, is a peer-to-peer anti-smoking effort.

Walsh’s winning entry is titled: “Your Life is Running Out.” It clearly portrayed a dying battery, with the caption: “Each cigarette burns away 11 minutes of your life… You can’t recharge that.”

Walsh received a check for $2,000. Half of the amount will be given to her school. She was presented with the check at a Bishop Kearney school assembly.