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Making a Difference - Cory Bolotsky
08/22/2010
Teen Leader & Safe Driving Activist
Cory Bolotsky is heading off to start his freshman year at Northeastern University in Boston this month and for the first time in a long while he is going to be the little fish in the big pond - which makes him a bit nervous. It won’t last long; he can already name five or six on-campus groups he will probably join the day he gets there and chances are in a few weeks he will be running at least one of them. This is because Cory absolutely loves to make a difference in people’s lives and, he enjoys being in charge. Voted by his peers at Manalapan High School as “Most Likely to Succeed,” Cory is already the proprietor of his own graphic and web design marketing consultant business, Vortex Graphics.
Cory, a National Honor Society member with a GPA of 3.77, credits his older sister Jenna, a grade school teacher, with partially raising him after their parents divorced. She was the one to instill in him the importance of striving for leadership while helping others. He was elected class president for all four years of high school and initiated many successful fund raisers. They totaled up to the most ever for any class in the school’s history. He worked tirelessly on in-school campaigns to help keep his peers safe with Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Prevention Team (A.D.A.P.T.) now known as Students Against Destructive Decisions (S.A.D.D.) and “Save A Brave”, a group organized to promote safe and sober driving to help minimize the risk of car crashes - the number one cause of death in teenagers. It was during Cory’s freshman year that Manalapan lost recent graduate and UConn freshman Carlee Wines to a horrific drunk driver hit-and-run accident. It devastated the close-knit community and Cory was instrumental in helping organize a 5K Run/Walkathon in her name for the past four years.
Outside of school Cory spearheaded many community outreach groups, particularly the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (B.B.Y.O.), where he was the regional president for all of Central Jersey and organizer of a huge food drive (7,000 lbs of food) to stock food banks in Asbury Park. “It was really nice to know that the food we were collecting was really going into the hands of the people in our local community who really need it,” Cory remarks. He also served on the township’s Alliance for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol abuse and was one of 12 kids selected to travel to Northern China to take part in Discovery Channel’s pilot Discovery Student Adventures 2009. It’s designed for students to share their experiences of foreign cultures and societies. He is now one of the faces of its marketing campaign. Currently, Cory is working with the DCH Auto Group, helping them design a website for their “Mindless Driving. Keep it Out of Cars®” agenda which also happens to be part of the S.A.D.D. initiative; this venture is a DCH exclusive, long term, teen-focused, drivings afety community outreach program and marketing campaign to keep “it”—as in, mindless driving—out of our teenagers’ cars. This means not driving distracted, driving recklessly, or driving under the influence, to name a few of their “Eight Mindless Moments” which are things people and especially teens do in cars when they should be concentrating on the road.
When you get right down to it, teenagers will always be teenagers; it’s a part of growing up. But there is no doubt that Cory has made a difference in his fellow students’ lives and maybe even saved a few of them. “Teenagers are teenagers and they are always going to experiment and they are always going to push the limits. But even if they do smoke and they do drink and they do drugs; at least they will think twice before they get behind the wheel of a car. I don’t know how many kids I’ve impacted. I don’t know if I’ve impacted any. But I know that in my graduating class I can proudly say that every single student who entered with me as freshman is graduating alive and that’s a big thing. The other classes don’t have that,” Cory states with evident passion.
Favorite Restaurant:
Mahzu,Freehold
Favorite Music:
Bon Jovi
Favorite Movie:
“Toy Story 3D”
Pet Peeve:
“When people just the words ‘gay’ or ‘retarded’when they really mean stupid or silly.”
Three People You Would Like to Have Dinner With:
Michael Bloomberg, Al Gore & Mark Zuckerberg; founder of Facebook
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