‘Be the nice kid’
Four Port Allegany High School seniors were named the 2025 Eastman Award winners. The award is typically given to one boy and one girl in the senior class, but for the second year in a row, there was a tie. Christian Reed, left, and Lillianne Reed, right, presented the winners, from left, Juuso Young, Grace Finn, Lily Madison and Austin Hamilton. Recipients are selected by administration, faculty, staff, coaches and advisors at PAHS. The Eastman Award is given in memory of Lloyd and Dolores Eastman to two graduating seniors at PAHS who fit this description by Bryan Scavnak: “Some kids are smarter than you. Some kids have cooler clothes than you. Some kids are better at sports than you. It doesn’t matter … You have your thing, too. Be the kid who can get along. Be the kid who is generous. Be the kid who is happy for other people. Be the kid who does the right thing. Be the nice kid.” The Reeds are great-grandchildren of the Eastmans, graduates of Port Allegany High School who lived their lives being generous, being happy for others and doing the right thing.