2003 Citizen Scholar: CHRIS WOOLERY, Central Heights High School

Chris Woolery spends his life on the road.

Woolery, a Herald Citizens Scholar of 2003 from Central Heights, figures he’s covered 35,000 miles and visited 55 colleges and universities in eight states in the last eight months as a recruiter for his Kappa Sigma fraternity.

As one of five Kappa Sigma recruiters in the U.S. Woolery works with local chapters to encourage students to join.

As he meets prospects, Woolery extols the benefits of the fraternity and how it helps members develop leadership skills and better study habits and time management and the network of more than 200,000 brothers in the fraternity.

He joined Kappa Sigma when he was at Baker University and he rose to vice president and president of the Baker chapter.

He also played basketball at Baker and worked in the university’s admissions department and helped recruit students to Baker.

Woolery said his experience as a recruiter at Baker may have been one of the things that got him the job as his fraternity’s national recruiter.

Once his two-year stint as a fraternity recruiter ends next year, Woolery plans to pursue graduate studies in higher education administration.

He is the son of Sheldon and Nancy Woolery, Princeton.

“Whenever I’m in this area, I always try to stop and reconnect with family and friends,” he said.

At the end of his two-year stint as a recruiter next year, Woolery plans to go to graduate school to study higher-education administration.