SJM_SouthernExposure_0324 - edit_SouthernExposure_11_08 3 / 25 / 24 9 : 29 AM Page 3 Do you know a local person ? NAMES TO KNOW who is doing great things ? Let us know by emailing Carly @ SouthJersey.com . Local people achieving big things in South Jersey and beyond Daniel Williams Melissa Klapper Alexander Nuckols Sophia R . Westfall Alan Cohen Gina Capate Westfall is a Shawnee High The Sicklerville native and Tim - Dr . Klapper , a Rowan University A Haddonfield Memorial High A Cherry Hill resident , father and The Burlington County Toys for School alumna who has ber Creek Regional High School professor who teaches Ameri - School senior , Nuckols has New Jersey public notary , Cohen Tots Coordinator has extended launched her own online pub - graduate won his third Super can and women’s history with a been named a finalist in the aims to provide hope and empa - her ongoing efforts to benefit the lishing house called The Se - Bowl title as a member of the focus on the late 19th and early 69th annual National Merit thy to cancer patients and sur - children and teachers in the com - cret Society of Poetry , de - coaching staff for the Kansas 20th centuries , made her fifth Scholarship Program . More vivors . As a stomach cancer and munity with a giveaway of 5,000 signed to encourage young City Chiefs . Williams became a Jeopardy ! appearance on March than 1.3 million juniors across a stroke survivor , Cohen volun - books during Toys for Tots ’ Read and aspiring writers , artists , coaching intern for the Chiefs in 4 . Klapper competed in the Tour - the country from approximately teers as a mentor and a legisla - Across America event . On March photographers and essayists 2019 and was promoted to the nament of Champions and 21,000 high schools were en - tive ambassador for the Ameri - 1 , nearly 300 locals from New to succeed in their art and find coaching staff a year later . He is placed third , leaving with tered into the 2024 National can Cancer Society , in addition Jersey and Pennsylvania benefit - empowerment in the requisite currently the offensive quality $ 13,199 ; her first stint on the Merit Scholarship Program af - to cheering along others through ed from these donations , which stumbles along the way . Dur - control / assistant quarterbacks show in 2023 won her $ 60,100 . ter submitting information like his work as a motivational also included board games . Cap - ing her time at Shawnee , coach , working closely with She began this process in 2020 their academic records and speaker . He also brings this con - ate conceptualized this event to Westfall won The Young Writ - Patrick Mahomes . Williams at - and went through a series of honorable recognitions . Nuck - sideration to his mobile notary promote literacy and to celebrate ers award twice , and she later tended Timber Creek from 2010 knowledge tests and Zoom inter - ols became one of 16,000 stu - service clients who are facing reading as a Maple Shade school published a collection of her to 2014 ; during his senior year views . Although she had to ap - dents when he was among difficult circumstances . As a for - board member and the Toys for work while attending Rutgers as starting quarterback , he ply to be on the show twice and those named as a semifinalist mer employee in the health care Tots Coordinator for nearly 25 University – Camden . broke a state record with 3,345 then faced setbacks due to the in the fall . He has the opportu - sector , his model of compassion - years . passing yards in a single sea - 2023 writers ’ strike , Klapper nity to receive one of three ate care has inspired his daugh - son , as well as the then - school made it to the quarter finals of types of National Merit Schol - ter to study nursing . record for most completions in a the Tournament of Champions . arships . single season with 220 . SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 20 issue 12 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 10 |