Mar 30, 2011

Did you receive any awards or recognition in high school?

Quite a few as I recall. They were for various debates we won (Lee Moon and I were a debate team and went to State our Senior year) and for other things like top science and math student. Jon Telisak and I were tied for the top math student our senior year. Jon drowned in Starvation reservoir the day after we graduated in May. The highest one that I received was Salutatorian of our Senior class beat out of Valedictorian spot by a couple hundredths of a percent by Serena Davies. If I had kept up my grades the way they were going in grade school I would have been near the bottom of the class but in 9th grade I finally figured out that I could get A's in class and went from a C student to a straight A student the last four years of school. (I was trying to keep up with Leesa who was the Valedictorian of her class the year before I graduated.)