THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, June 18, 1995 TAG: 9506150241
SECTION: CAROLINA COAST PAGE: 47 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 89 lines
This week's edition of The Carolina Coast lists high school graduates from Currituck County, Manteo, Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke. The valedictorians for those schools, with the exception of Ocracoke, are highlighted in mini-profiles. Because Ocracoke does not have a valedictorian, there is no profile.
Graduates from Northeastern, Camden, Perquimans and John A. Holmes high schools will be listed next week.
For the list of graduates, please see the following page.[microfilm] MEMO: MANTEO VALEDICTORIAN
Name: Daniel Diehl
Age: 17
Parents: Guardians, Jim and Candy Southern
GPA: 4.08
Extracurricular activities: Wrestling, soccer, School Improvement
Planning Team, Junior Class president and SGA vice president.
College plans: To attend the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Career plans: To be a pilot.
Secret to academic success: Success is the reward for doing your
best.
Worst habit: I chew the skin around my fingernails.
Favorite book: ``The Firm,'' by John Grisham.
Favorite TV show: I don't watch TV.
High school memoir: Soccer and friends.
Advice for junior class I am leaving behind: Don't put us to shame.
Person I most admire:. My dad, Jim Southern.
CAPE HATTERAS VALEDICTORIAN
Name: Margaret Grace Parker
Age: 17
Parents: Richard and Darlene Parker
GPA: 3.86
Parents: Richard and Darlene Parker
Extracurricular activities: Cast member in school musical, peer tutor
and soccer.
College plans: To attend the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Career plans: Maybe business or medicine.
Secret to academic success: Pay close attention in class - and
study.
Worst habit: Biting my nails.
Favorite book: ``Beloved'' by Toni Morrison
Favorite TV show: ``Home Improvement''
High school memoir: Being in the school musical, ``Little Shop of
Horrors,'' and especially all my wonderful friends.
Advice for junior class I am leaving behind: Make the best of your
senior year. It will go by fast.
Person I admire most: I admire Oprah Winfrey because she is a strong
woman and has worked hard to get where she is now. She is also very
talented in dealing with all kinds of people.
CURRITUCK COUNTY VALEDICTORIAN
Name: Karen Anne Griffin
Age: 17
Parents: Lucian and Sarah Griffin
GPA: 4.10
Extracurricular activities: SGO, FCA, tennis, Beta Club, Peer
Helpers, Youth Council, math team, Currituck High International Club.
College plans: To attend Duke University.
Career plans: Civil engineering.
Secret to academic success: Not stressing myself out over little
things and managing my time among academics, athletics and
extracurricular activities - always putting my academics first.
Worst habit: Procrastination and laziness
Favorite book: ``The Bridges of Madison County'' by Robert Waller
Favorite TV show: I don't spend enough time watching TV to have a
favorite.
High school memoir: My friends, the long tennis and basketball trips,
and very strange lunch conversations.
Advice for junior class I am leaving behind: It's going to be hard,
but try to stay focused at least through the first three nine-weeks of
your senior year. Also, enjoy it while you can. You'll miss it when
you're out.
Person I most admire: Anyone who can balance academics, athletics and
be a sincere and trustworthy friend who will stand up for what they
believe in, because people like that are extremely hard to find. ILLUSTRATION: Photos of valedictorians
by CNB