Michael Frazier, 17, wasn’t nervous before starting CPR on a fellow Maine South High School student who collapsed while jogging around the school’s track in April.
But Frazier, a recent Maine South High School graduate, was racked with nerves when the Park Ridge City Council honored his life-saving actions at an Aug. 5 meeting and the Park Ridge Professional Firefighters Association surprised him with a scholarship for emergency medical technician certification. That certification will be the beginning of Frazier’s post-secondary education at Harper College to become an emergency medical technician and paramedic.