Word: valedictorians
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Before coming to Harvard in 1989, Hankins, a native of Detroit, attended Grosse Point Academy and the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, where he was co-valedictorian...
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These angels lead me to the second difference between the two life transitions. After high school, many feel an overwhelming desire to reinvent themselves. Whether it is the degree of anonymity that college affords or the freedom of shedding off the labels that once defined us—valedictorian, snob, goody-goody, nerd—the ability to start with a clean slate is liberating. Freshman year is a veritable free-for-all, the time to be whoever we always wanted to be, whether socialite, jock, girlfriend or scholar...
...Paul showed grit from early manhood. When he went out for the Rutgers University football team, other players beat him up and pulled out his fingernails; he bore the abuse to prove his worth, and when he graduated he was a two-time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision." Robeson did. Four years later he was starring for O'Neill, giving the first concert composed entirely of songs by African Americans and playing the two lead roles (as a philandering preacher and his sweet-souled brother) in Oscar Micheaux's silent film...
Ranking number one on and off the field, Sabin received Most Valuable Player recognition in the east side of Washington—along with numerous pitching distinctions within her county—and was valedictorian of her high school class...