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This one comes straight out of the movie "Reality Bites," Where Winona Ryder, playing the class valedictorian, sums up the languid angst of our generation: "The answer is...I don't know...
...expected a nervous teenager, a Wonderbread good-girl with the right classes and all the conventional credentials, class valedictorian and secretary of her student council...
...restaurant consultant who lived an exemplary life in Oregon. To her mother she was Kathy, a daughter she had last seen 23 years ago on a weekend visit from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large Power brood...
Grades are not objective because academic expectations and requirements vary from school to school, and even from class to class within a school. That may be why Eugenia Kay Harris was valedictorian if Mark Stonecypher's claims that the took more difficult courses are true. An `A' in underwater basketweaving may have the same effect on grade point average as an `A' in calculus, but they say different things about a person's academic ability. Similarly a `B' at one school (or from one teacher) may represent the same accomplishment as an `A' at another...
Mark Stonecypher is a white male and was salutatorian of John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Ala. His classmate Eugenia Kay Harris is a Black female and was valedictorian...