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Let’s Give The Devil His Due
May 9, 2013Sometimes reading the headlines makes me cringe. Page after page screams of relentless, dark, depressing, hideous and upsetting events all around the world. Sometimes it is scenes of weeping families that result from natural disasters like earthquakes and storms. But, worse still are the treacherous deeds done by human beings, plotting to harm others for […]
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Korean Student Finds Catholic Faith, Inspires Others
May 9, 2013CUMMING—When Jinny Kim entered Pinecrest Academy, she was in a new school and in a new country, surrounded by people who measured success in a different way. Kim, whose full name is Jin Sol Kim, was born and raised in a town near Seoul, South Korea. She had lived in the Philippines for a few […]
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Artistic Gift Blossoms For Marist Student Overcoming Dyslexia
May 9, 2013ATLANTA—The second-floor art room is where Sarah Piper goes to get away. The high school senior’s art portfolio gives her a break from the words and numbers that challenge her. “It is something that has helped me so much. I never found myself good with words, especially with dyslexia. I just hated writing and reading […]
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‘Unsung Hero’ At Athens School Hopes To Be Marketer, Marine
May 9, 2013ATHENS—Monsignor Donovan High School senior Jeremy Ruiz has had an active high school career that includes four years of varsity soccer, serving as captain of the boxing team, and heading up the video gaming club, a group he started at the beginning of his junior year. As he looks toward life after high school, he […]
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‘Charity In Action’ Distinguishes Blessed Trinity Senior
May 9, 2013ROSWELL—Allee Smith had homeless women and children she’s served on her mind as she competed in beauty pageants. Smith, 18, who was Miss Fulton County Outstanding Teen 2012, volunteered at the Drake House and spoke out about ending homelessness during her competitions. The home is a residential crisis center for women and children in north […]
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Vietnam Native Impacts School With Unselfish Acts, Work Ethic
May 9, 2013FAYETTEVILLE—Huy Trinh wanted to reach more students at Our Lady of Mercy High School whose grades needed extra help. The existing National Honor Society tutoring project wasn’t reaching many students, so he changed it to serve the students better. He assigned members of the academic club to teachers who appointed the tutors to students. When […]
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Pius Teen’s Health Inspires Her To Pursue Medicine
May 9, 2013ATLANTA—When St. Pius X senior Amanda Cameron was diagnosed with progressive mitochondrial myopathy in December 2010, she thought her high school career was over. Now she is preparing to graduate and feels blessed to have had such a “perfect” senior year. “I almost dropped out of high school,” she said, recalling her reaction the day […]
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Holy Spirit Senior Finds Passion In Metalworking
May 9, 2013ATLANTA—When Holy Spirit Prep School senior Alex Munoz was doing a school project in eighth grade, he came across a video of copper being cast, a process by which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. “Somehow I ended […]
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The Class of 2013
May 6, 2013One student built a foundry. Another embraced volunteering. Another turned to art to express herself when dyslexia made reading difficult. Those are just three of the seven seniors we write about in the upcoming issue. We’re putting together our annual package of standout high school seniors, including an audio slideshow. The students from all seven […]
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Check out this radio story
May 3, 2013I searched last night for a podcast to listen to as I prepared my daughter for bed. You see, I am a big, big fan of radio story telling. GB photographer Michael Alexander introduced me to The Moth – with its motto “True stories told live” – a few years ago and I’ve listened off and […]