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Name: Melissa Stow
Age: 28
Occupation: Nurse Recruiter for Cook Children's Medical Center
Definition of Beauty: External beauty is quickly judged and determined on the outside through style, physique and overall appearance of another human. However, beauty that is only skin deep is not true beauty. To be beautiful is to be comedic yet poised, hospitable yet professional, devoted yet nurturing. True beauty is noticed on the outside but validated on the inside.
How I Give Back to the Community: As a child, I would volunteer with both the McKinney Food Pantry and Mission McKinney, working to improve lower income neighborhoods. Furthermore, my college sorority’s philanthropy was Make A Wish Foundation, and we made annual efforts to help grant a child’s wish. Giving back to the community and supporting the local charities is something that myself and my spouse find gratifying. Whether it be walking for Susan G. Komen, to raising money for Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, The Halo Society, Ronald McDonald House, St. Jude, the American Diabetes Association, Jewel Charity Ball or dropping some money into the Shriners buckets at a stop light, we make a conscious effort to give back to those in need.
