Percy Hughes Award Winner selects Victory House as Charity of Choice

On January 19, 2010, the Director of Community Services at Lehigh University, Carolina Hernandez, received the Percy Hughes Award at a banquet held at Lehigh University. The Hughes Award honors those individuals who work toward advancing Lehigh University’s culture of addressing the local, national, or world challenges by direct active involvement. Carolina‘s direct active involvement in directing the community services department at Lehigh helped her achieve her departments goals. Awardees receive a monetary prize and have their names engraved on the Percy Hughes plaque. Awardees are unanimously chosen by Lehigh’s Percy Hughes committee.

As part of the awards requirements, half of the monetary award is donated in the recipient’s name to a cause, a charity, or a project of his/her choice that reflects the values and ideas embodied in the Percy Hughes Award.  Carolina chose Victory House of Lehigh Valley as the charity recipient of the Hughes Award and the charity that helped her achieve her goals best. 

We at Victory House are proud of Carolina and excited to continue our work with her and to be a community partner with Lehigh University, Thank you, Carolina and Lehigh University for your partnership and community service.

Percy Hughes was a philosopher, teacher, and professor who directed the Philosophy, Education, and Psychology Department at Lehigh University beginning in 1907 until 1942.