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June 3, 2015 | forsythherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 23
GHP finalists Forsyth Central: • Keegan Householder • Jeffery Sloan • James Ballard • Michael Coalla • Connor Holtz • Abrianna DePuty Lambert: • Deborah Song • Joseph Flynn • Bongioon Lee • Noor Sohal • Nina Reddy • Stephanie Tian South Forsyth: • Jessica Tang • Amanda Bock • Austin Kim • Evan Calatayud • Kyle Carozza • Sean Chua • Katie Reneslacis • Natalie Strandquist West Forsyth: • Murli Bharadwaj • Zain Meekail • Thomas Cheeseman HILLARY HUNNINGS/STAFF
Thomas Cheeseman will attend Georgia’s Governors Honors Program this summer for theater design. North Forsyth High School did not have any finalists.
Forsyth County students GHP-bound Selective summer program targets top students By HILLARY HUNNINGS news@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. – Twenty-three Forsyth County students will attend Georgia’s Governor’s Honors Program on the Valdosta State University campus June 21 to July 18. The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement received 28,000 applications. Only 679 finalists were selected. The summer residential program selects gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors from across the state to partake in a learning experience unlike those found in high school classrooms.
GHP began in 1964 and is the longest continuously running summer program for gifted and talented high school students in the United States. “It’s like an academics and fine arts Super Bowl,” said West Forsyth High School (WFHS) teacher and GHP coordinator Dr. Anita PerezStuddard. Applicants apply for a major, an area of study they are passionate about and excel in. They then undergo an extended interview process. This summer, the program offers majors in communicative arts, mathematics, science, agricultural science, engineering and design, music, Chinese, Spanish, Latin, German, French, social studies, dance, technology, theater, engineer-
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Forsyth’s sixth high school named By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Board of Education (BOE) voted May 21 to name the county’s sixth high school Dr. Leila Denmark High School, or Denmark High School for short. A naming committee was comprised of Board member Tom Cleveland, a member of the Forsyth County Historical Society and principals and parents from the high schools impacted by the opening of the school, including South Forsyth HS and West Forsyth HS. The school will be located on a 118.45-acre tract located off Fowler Road with frontage on both Fowler and Mullinax roads. It will be similar in design to Lambert HS and West For-
syth HS. Redistricting traditionally occurs one year prior to the school’s opening, so for this, it would be 2017, said Jennifer Caracciolo, director of public information and communications for Forsyth County CLEVELAND Schools. The committee met and discussed the area and potential names, said Caracciolo. The group narrowed down the names to Isaac Clement HS, Dr. Leila Denmark HS and Union Hill HS. The names were put out for a vote by the public for two weeks, in which 6,863 votes were recorded. The committee voted on Dr. Leila
Denmark as their recommendation after it received 67 percent of votes. Isaac Clement received 7 percent and Union Hill received 27 percent. Cleveland said earlier in the year, he did a ride-along with the sheriff who brought him to Denmark’s property and told him her story. Unbeknownst to the sheriff, Cleveland was in the process of deciding names with the committee. “Then coming to the meeting, we talked a lot about it,” Cleveland said. “It was very instrumental in my thinking of that area and how it came about. I learned a lot of history from that area and I’ve done some more reading on her. “She was a fabulous woman who did a lot in the community,” he said. “I en-
courage people to go look at that part of it and understand the history, because we do learn things right around us and the important part we play in the area around Atlanta.” The new high school site is adjacent to where Denmark, one of the first female pediatricians in Georgia, lived and operated her last medical office. Working with Eli Lilly and researchers at Emory University, Denmark helped develop a successful vaccine for whooping cough in 1932. She retired at the age of 103 as the oldest practicing physician in the nation. She passed away in 2012 at the age of 114. At the time, she was the fifth-oldest living person in the world. For more information on Denmark, visit http://tinyurl.com/nv6a22c.