CARIBOU — Lydia Kieffer, Caribou’s new marketing and event coordinator, recently graduated from Paul Smiths College in Paul Smiths, N.Y., and was recognized for achieving a perfect grade point average.
The college’s president, Cathy Dove, awarded Kieffer the prestigious 2015 President’s Award, as the senior with the highest cumulative grade point average of 4.0.
A 2015 graduate in the hotel, resort and tourism management program, Kieffer was a Rotary International exchange student, representing Caribou in Spain. Her experience includes her ongoing marketing and social media work for RE/MAX Central’s Kieffer team.
She has served as event chair of the Paul Smiths Hospitality Club, heading up several events including this year’s Haunted House event, coordinating 40 student volunteers and moving nearly 300 students, the largest on record, through the exciting one-night experience.
Voted by her teammates and coaches as the Paul Smiths 2015 MVP of the soccer team, Kieffer traveled to West Virginia to complete in the 2014 playoff tournament. While at school, she also competed and placed second in the two-women category in the 90-Miler, 3-Day canoe race, and just this month won first place in the Madawaska Stream Race.
An avid outdoors person, Kieffer loves horseback riding on her retired jumper, King Louis, as well as skiing, soccer, canoeing, and more. She and her family love their Labrador puppies and usually raise a litter a year.
She encourages residents to share their marketing and event ideas with her.
