COLLEGE HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ALUMNI & FRIENDS NEWSLETTER
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S H A R I NG C O M M ON R O OT S – NO U R I S H I NG G E N E R AT ION S
NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS
WILLIAM ESTEP
JOSH BREHM
COMMENDED SCHOLAR
ERIC PATTERSON
NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS
FIVE YEAR ACT AVERAGES CONGRATULATIONS CHCS for posting excellent ACT scores for the 2012 school year!
KATIE (Garris) MARSH Inducted into MSSU Hall of Fame Katie (Garris) Marsh (1998) was inducted into the Missouri Southern State University Hall of Fame on September 21st 2012 during an induction ceremony and dinner. Gariss was a three-year starter on the women’s basketball team (1998 to 2002). She was named the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year in 2002, one of two MSSU athletes to earn that honor. She was first-team All-MIAA and All-District in 2000-01 after averaging 18 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. During her career, she averaged 12.9 points and 6.2 rebounds per game while shooting .485 from the field and .735 from the free-throw line. Gariss ranked eighth on the women’s basketball career scoring list with 1,230 points. Gariss and her husband Jeff have three children, Kinley (5), Hunter (3) and Will (4 months). The family lives in Joplin where she is a physician’s assistant at Ortho of the Four States.
The ACT testing results were recently released for the 2011-12 school year. The College Heights Christian School Average ACT score for the class of 2012 is 25.5. That is an all time high for CHCS. The average National ACT score is 21.1 and Missouri state average is 21.6. The CHCS scores reflect 100% participation of the 37 graduates of the class of 2012.
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College Heights Christian School announced that Seniors JOSH BREHM and ERIC PATTERSON are being recognized as a semi-finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. They represent the top less than one percent of the U.S. high school seniors, and include the highest scoring entrants in each state. They are the only two semifinalists named this year in the Four State area. WILLIAM ESTEP, Senior, has also been named as a Commended Scholar and placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who took the Preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. These three students represent eight percent of the CHCS Senior class of 37 students.
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“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.” –Jeremiah 17:7-8