Rank: Valedictorian

Parents: Charles R. and Donna C. Hall

Grade average: 100.5116

Future plans: Majoring in English or communications at Angelo State University.

School activities/honors: TGCA basketball academic all-state, Lion’s Club Student of the Month, National Merit commended student, UIL prose interpretation district champion, head drum major.

What will you remember best about high school: I will always remember and be thankful for the many, many adventures and for the people I have been blessed in knowing. One specific occasion I will not forget is when I discovered my sophomore year that literature was something to be learned from, something one could ask questions about, something that could be dug into. When English teacher Judith Goates had read the short story I had come into her room to find, she looked up at me and asked: “Why was there sunshine in that one spot?” It wasn’t the type of question I was used to being asked, something I could just spit a fact back to and answer. I had to think. And it opened a whole new door for me.

What advice do you have for underclassmen: Be diligent, be patient, remember to smile and breathe, and above all, seek God and His Truth in all you do.