Texas Pearl Chapter honors 27 seniors after 11,755 service hours

Twenty-seven seniors from the Texas Pearl Chapter of National Charity League were honored at the Hilton after six years of service that added up to 11,755 volunteer hours across Rockwall County. The total turned a milestone ceremony into a measure of local impact, showing how one mother-daughter organization helped sustain food support, advocacy, animal welfare and family services in a county that is growing fast.

The chapter’s Class of 2026 included Lauren Tungcab, Rylee Lyon, Lia Stone, Liz McCalmont, Carys Albers, Sophie Griswold, Lydia Hittle, Myla Brizendine, Elise Doty, Parker Deadman, Delaney Bernard, Camille Smith, Grace Neidermeier, Kate Axum, Kai Spencer, Madison Smith, Hannah Radebaugh, Ava Northcutt, Emma Fishman, Camille Barkley, Makayla Schulte, Parker Brott, Blythe Barkley, Lexi Samples, Ella Canaday, Kaitlyn Perez and Campbell Cilio. Their recognition reflected more than high school completion. It marked the end of a six-year track built around service, leadership development and cultural experiences for Rockwall County mothers and daughters.

Texas Pearl is the 253rd National Charity League chapter, and its members must reside in Rockwall County. The chapter held its formation meeting in 2018, which makes the Class of 2026 one of the first groups to complete the full cycle from its founding years. That matters in a county where the U.S. Census Bureau places the July 1, 2025 population estimate at 140,738, up from 107,819 in the 2020 Census. As the county has expanded, the chapter’s volunteer pipeline has helped keep local nonprofits supplied with hands-on labor and young leaders.

Those hours reached organizations that are woven into daily life in Rockwall County. Helping Hands, which has served the county for more than 40 years, benefits families facing food and basic-needs insecurity. Liberty Heights, Rockwall Pets, Special Olympics and the Children’s Advocacy Center also received support through chapter service, extending the group’s work into disability inclusion, animal welfare and child advocacy. Patriot PAWS Service Dogs, based in Rockwall, trains and provides service dogs at no cost to disabled American veterans and others with mobile disabilities, making it another direct beneficiary of local youth volunteerism.

The 11,755-hour total also pushes Texas Pearl well beyond its earlier benchmark. A 2024 senior class had already recorded more than 8,900 hours since the chapter began in 2018, and the Class of 2026 has now lifted that record higher. In Rockwall County, the message from this year’s senior class is clear: service is not ceremonial, it is infrastructure, and these 27 young women leave behind a stronger civic base than the one they entered.