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She’ll always remember the school spirit at Forsyth Central

By Brian Paglia

bpaglia@forsythnews.com

Forsyth Central High School’s varsity football team was playing North Forsyth, t h e i r b i g g e s t r iva l , a n d Elizabeth Appleton was finally on the sidelines for it.

Appleton, then a junior, had joined Central’s cheerleading program the summer before freshman year. The program gave Appleton an early connection to the school, a group to lean on as she made the transition from middle to high school.

For two years, Appleton was a member of the junior varsity cheerleading squad, but now, she was on varsity. As she stood on the sidelines, Appleton looked up at the crowd of fans and remembered why she loved being a student at Central.

“The idea that all these people show up to cheer on a team,” Appleton said. “We all know Central has had some poor years and some better years, but still everyone shows up and is cheering on the kids who have worked so hard after school every day.”

Appleton grew up attending Central feeder schools. Her friends were going to be Bulldogs, and she was too.

“I’ve been pretty much with the same kids through kindergarten,” Appleton said.

As she got closer to attending Central, Appleton heard about

the school’s family-like atmosphere and was skeptical.

“Every school tries to brand themselves as a family, right?”

Appleton said. “Why wouldn’t they?”

It didn’t take long for Central to convince her.

First, it was the teachers, who demonstrated concern for students’ academic and socialemotional well-being.

“I have so many teachers that were basically my mom at school,” Appleton said.

Then, Appleton started to find her place in Central’s “family.”

Cheerleading helped. So did her freshman marketing class, which introduced Appleton to DECA, a non-profit organization that “prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management,” according to their website.

In both, Appleton found camaraderie among the daunting number of friend groups in high school.

“It was hard at first to find a group that was right for me,” Appleton said, “but once I found it, everyone was so accepting of it.”

Appleton became an integral part of both groups. In DECA, she finished third at a state competition her sophomore year and was selected to be an officer as a junior and senior.

This school year, Appleton was named a captain on the cheerleading team.

But Appleton never felt more connected to her school than cheering on the sidelines during a Friday-night football game.

And she never felt Central’s community come alive more than that night against North

Forsyth. The Bulldogs won, 24-20, the first win for the program against a county team in 11 years. The team went on to make the state playoffs for the first time since 2001.

Appleton remembers being

surrounded by pandemonium in the stadium as her Central family celebrated together.

“It was wild. It was fun,” Appleton said. “I feel like the school spirit was so high in that moment, too.”

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Pinecrest Academy Class of 2020!

Our 74 graduates earned over

$11 MILLION in scholarship awards, with acceptances to 90 colleges and universities.

HONORS & AWARDS: • 36 Pinecrest graduates are Zell Miller Scholars, 37 are HOPE Scholars, and 1 is a National Merit Scholarship Finalist.

• Reflecting the school’s commitment to service, the Class of 2020 completed over 8,300 service hours during high school, and one student will give a year of service to the Church.

• Seven student athletes have signed to continue playing their sport of choice at the college level.

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Denmark senior helped document history of new high school

By Brian Paglia

bpaglia@forsythnews.com

When the Denmark High School boys basketball team clinched its first region championship, Sophie Ralph was there with her camera.

When the newest Forsyth County high school held its first prom in 2019, Ralph was there with her camera.

At pep rallies and volleyball matches and everything in between, Ralph was always there with her camera to capture the moment for the Denmark yearbook.

“So that everyone can appreciate them is really important to me,” Ralph said.

Over her four years of high school — first at South Forsyth, then at Denmark when it opened in 2019 — Ralph found a passion for storytelling. It started at the South Forsyth student newspaper,

The Nest. Ralph was the art critic. She wrote about the theater department’s productions. Ralph particularly enjoyed giving readers a peek behind the curtain.

“I really loved kind of opening up what was going on backstage to everyone that wasn’t involved,” Ralph said.

Denmark didn’t have a student newspaper when Ralph transitioned there, but determined to pursue journalism, Ralph decided to get involved with yearbook.

Within two weeks, she was its editor-inchief leading a team of designers, photographers and writers to document life at Denmark.

The position gave her a wide experience of the school and helped her develop new skills.

“Yearbook had so many different elements that I loved,” Ralph said. “I love photography. I love writing. Designing

was something that I’d never done before but I really enjoyed. It kind of played to my strengths.”

Yearbook allowed Ralph to be there for many of the school’s biggest moments. For example, she relished taking photos of Homecoming. It just so happened her good friend was named Homecoming King.

“That made me so happy for him,” Ralph said.

Initially, Ralph was a little unsure about going to a brand-new high school, but she eventually realized it gave her the chance to do things she probably wouldn’t have at South Forsyth.

Ralph founded the Denmark chapter of Just One Africa, an organization that provides orphans and vulnerable children in Africa with access to clean water, and organized fundraisers. She

also created a digital news show on Twitter, called The Denmark Sports News Network, where she interviewed coaches for pre- and post-game reports as well as athletes for a “senior spotlight” series.

But for all the big moments Ralph got to be a part of, some of her favorite ones that she’ll take with her when she attends the University of Georgia are the less noteworthy ones: seeing Denny the Great Dane, the school’s mascot, in the hallway, or sitting in the courtyard with friends during lunch.

“Just being a high school student,” Ralph said. “There’s really no pressure on them to be these great things. They just are great on their own. I think those are the moments that really made that place great for me.”

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Lambert’s Xuan calls acceptance to Harvard ‘a dream come true’

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Lambert High School’s Henry Xuan will soon be headed to the Ivy League and is making the most out of his remaining time in Forsyth County.

Xuan, a 2020 Lambert graduate, will soon be attending Harvard University, which he called “an absolute dream come true.”

“That actually is what I’ve been mostly doing during my quarantine, just figuring out where I plan on going to college,” Xuan said.

In his time at Lambert, Xuan rose to leadership positions both at the school and in statewide organizations.

Xuan served on a variety of roles including as state executive president for Future Business Leaders of America, state executive president and district of the Georgia Association of Student Councils, sophomore class president and senior class commissioner at Lambert, president and captain of school’s debate team and as student leader of the Whisper Movement, which aims to create connections between students to address social isolation. “[The Whisper Movement] wasn’t a movement I planned to get involved with, but I think my experience with leadership and my experience actually seeing firsthand the impact social isolation has had not just on the students at our school, but [my friends], I realized this is something that we really need to build a stronger community bond,” he said.

The COVID-19 outbreak “definitely has not been easy,” Xuan said, due to the cancellation of senior milestones and the annual FBLA conference, which was canceled just days before it was supposed to happen.

“That was kind of the final event for

my term as state president,” Xuan said.

“It was the biggest event of the year. It was the event that you work hard all year to get to, and we were the first state officer team in the history of Georgia FBLA not to have a state conference.”

Xuan said while it could be easy to get caught up in the negative, social distancing did give him a chance to consider his school options, read more, take some online courses and spend more time with family before he moves.

Even with all of his successes, Xuan said one of his biggest, though not glamorous, memories came at the first pep

rally of his freshman year, when he tried a backflip, with an “emphasis on tried.”

“I didn’t get to land it,” Xuan recalled I landed on my neck/back area and if that weren’t enough the whole incident was caught on video and [became a meme] by the rest of the school. Because of that, I was kind of known as the backflip boy for the rest of the year and I don’t think anyone actually knew my real name.”

Xuan laughed as he told the story and said he was able to get a better perspective on it after talking with an adviser, one of several adults he said were influ-

ential in his time at Lambert, including teachers, counselors, vice principals, coaches, his FBLA supervisor and Principal Gary Davison.

“These people have all played a significant part of developing not just the leader that I get to be today but also the person and the character that I am today,” Xuan said. “Throughout the years, I’ve been able to just walk right into their offices and any problem I’ve been having, they’ve been more than happy to offer their suggestions, their advice and just be there to comfort me when I need them.”

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North senior faced ‘worries’ and ‘a lot of opportunities’ during COVID-19 response

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After four years on the drumline in North Forsyth High School’s Raider Band, including being drum captain his senior year, graduating senior Dylan Head those football Friday nights were among his favorite high school memories.

“Being in the drumline and playing in the student section and everything, having your peers watch you play drums and everyone’s cheering for you and stuff, just the energy of North and the pride we all have for our school, it was just a good community and I’m glad I’m part of it.

Along with being drum captain and preforming in North’s indoor drumline, marching band and concert band, in his junior and senior year, Head also served as a Raider Commander, which he said was “a leadership position that helps out the underclassmen, helps out admin, just overall student leadership,” Like all seniors, Head was impacted by schools closing due to COVID-19, which he said didn’t really hit him until the state’s shelter-in-place order went into effect.

“That’s when I started to realize all the things I was doing with my friends and how like hanging out and trying to do school work and trying to get things accomplished with people and being able to see everybody before we all go off

to college and go our separate way,” he said. “That was kind of one of my worries about things, losing that time with friends and my peers, some teachers and everything, making those memories and doing all the fun senior activities and prom and all that stuff.”

Head said he feels like his experience was common but despite the tough situation said there were some personal silver linings.

“On the flip side of that, it’s opened a lot of opportunities for me, like I got to spend time with my family, people I normally don’t hand out with in my family, like some of my cousins we’ve been talking more. It’s given me time to work on myself and figure out the path that I want to take in life, and it’s given me time to reflect upon how good we have it and what we take for granted.”

With more time to think about his future, Head said he used the time to figure out his post-high school plans.

“Originally, I was planning on going to Kennesaw,” Head said, “then I realized college was something I would want to wait for, so I’m joining the United States Coast Guard to become a rescue swimmer.

That’s my plan right now. I want to be a firefighter/EMT, like my dad, so I’m going to join the Coast Guard and go that route.”

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Congratulations Class of 2020

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From the Faculty and Staff of North Forsyth high school

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Winning in the courtroom:

How this South Forsyth grad discovered his passion

By Sabrina Kerns

skerns@forsythnews.com

Friends describe Bryan Walker as a “yes man,” always going along with whatever clubs, sports and other extracurriculars that those around school ask him to take part in.

The habit has led Walker to spend 12-hour days at school as he struggled to manage his time to fit everything he could into his day, but the habit has also led him to his passion.

During his freshman and sophomore years, Walker studied at Forsyth Central High School within the STEM program with the hope of a future in engineering. Walker was satisfied with his choice until one day a senior at the school asked him to join in on the mock trial team. The student managed to convince him, and, reluctantly, Walker joined and started preparing for competition.

“But the first time we went into the courtroom for competition we ended up winning,” Walker said. “And I got to give our opening statement, and it ended up being the best experience of my life.”

The experience made Walker realize how much he truly fell in love with mock trial and the idea that he could one day help others as an attorney. It turned Walker’s high school goals upside down, and he soon left the STEM program and transferred to South Forsyth High School at the start of his junior year to join its International Baccalaureate program.

“It was like a complete 180 for me,” Walker said.

During the start of his junior year, Walker was in a whole new environment, getting lost a few times on campus and trying to make new friends, but he still quickly became heavily involved in school clubs and activities.

Along with the mock trial team, Walker competed on the Varsity track team at South Forsyth, and he led students as the president of the black student union, the junior class president, and then later on as the senior class president.

Walker described his last year at South Forsyth as momentous as he and the rest of the student council worked with the school’s principal to revamp school spirit and bring the students together.

Thanks to their efforts, more students started showing up to football games and cheering on players, the school had its first homecoming dance in years and students started to take more pride in their school.

The year later came to a halt when students found out in early April that schools in Forsyth County would be closed for the remainder of the year due to the coronavirus. Walker said that, like many of his other classmates, thinking about the missed time at school and all of the teachers he was not able to share a goodbye with made him emotional.

Looking back on his time in Forsyth County and at school, Walker said there is so much that he is going to miss when he leaves for the University of Georgia in the fall. He has spent most of his life in Forsyth County, and still sees his old elementary and middle schools every other day when he goes on a run through town.

Although it is a small ritual, one thing Walker said he will miss most is his snack runs to QuikTrip with his oldest friends.

Before heading over to hang out at each other’s houses, the group of them will always stop off at the QuikTrip down the road to grab milkshakes and junk food.

“Before we started driving back in middle school, we used to walk from our houses down to there, and it used to be like a

whole day thing,” Walker said.

Walker’s goal this summer is to spend as much time as he can with his family and his friends before they split ways and start

a new chapter in college in the fall. With graduation on his mind, Walker said that he has been especially thankful to his parents for supporting him and

having his back through all of his endeavors and to South Forsyth Principal Laura Wilson for giving him the opportunities to stand out in school.

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West grad focusing on positives of unique senior year

By Kelly Whitmire

kwhitmire@forsythnews.com

In high school, Ryan Newman w a s i nv o l v e d i n w a y s t o increase positivity, an outlook he is keeping as he and other graduating seniors go through an unprecedented situation.

Newman, a 2020 graduate of West Forsyth High School, said he isn’t letting the impacts of COVID-19 get in the way of his good memories from high school.

“I had a blast my whole high school time. There are ups and downs, but there’s ups and downs in everything,” Newman said. “Corona is a bummer, but if we all come together, we can all grow from it and find times in it where we get some positive experiences and knowledge gained. We’ll be better in the end for it.”

Along with being in the school’s marching band, where he served as band captain in his junior and senior years, Newman said he was involved with several clubs at West, including Sources of Strength, which he said was particularly impactful.

“On paper, it was a suicide prevention club, but it was mostly just trying to change school culture to be a little bit more positive because, as we all know, it’s kind of negative these days,” he said. “That was really fun. I really enjoyed that, got to meet some really cool people, got to really just interact with some fun teachers and people that I wouldn’t get to interact with.”

This summer, Newman is leaving, just days before his inperson high school graduation, for a three-year mission trip with his church, and once he returns, he’s planning to attend Utah State University to study logistics management.

Newman said while he is a little disappointed to have to miss milestones like graduation and misses teachers and classmates but said the reality of the situation hadn’t really set in yet.

“I was making some jokes with my friends about it about how I’m kind of in denial right now. So, I’m not too sad about it,” Newman said. “I’m kind of happy, I feel good, but I know I’m probably going to be sad pretty soon. The big thought is just ‘It’ll keep going.’ Life isn’t just stopped. It’s a real bummer that this happened, and I won’t get to walk at my in-person graduation, and that’s a bummer, but that’s OK. Life still goes on.”

As Newman is getting ready for the next chapter in his life, he did have some advice for those who will be attending West and other high schools this fall.

“Just get involved,” he said.

“It’s way more fun when you do something ... Watch out for negative people or you’ll look at the world negatively, and then you’ll have a pretty bad time.

Something that a good friend of mine says is, ‘Always be the one who uplifts friends, don’t let friends bring you down.”

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The City of Cumming Congratulates All Forsyth County 2020 Graduates and Honors Our 2020 Youth Council Graduates

Jake Gant

Grace Gant

Eva Sell

Forsyth Central High School 2019-2020 Youth Council President

Forsyth Central High School 2019-2020 Youth Council Clerk

Forsyth Central High School 2019-2020 Youth Council Member

Jake, Grace, and Eva Everyone at the City of Cumming wishes you all the best as you begin the next chapter of your lives; we know you’ll all accomplish much!

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After canceled season, Pinecrest Academy tennis captain plans on pursuing a degree in nursing

By Kelly Whitmire

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Jimmy Herbert said he spent 11 years as a student at Pinecrest Academy and wants to eventually use the lessons he learned at the school in a career in the medical field.

Herbert, a 2020 Pinecrest graduate, said he made the decision to attend Samford University to study nursing after first becoming interested during classes and then getting some hands-on experience last summer.

“It really came to me in the last year, year-and-a-half when I realized that I enjoyed the sciences a lot. Sitting in science classes, I really liked doing that, and I got a job at a local Chick-fil-A, so I realized that service was a big part of who I was too,” Herbert said. “There’s a volunteer program at Northside Hospital over the summer, so I volunteered for about a month there, and I really liked it, so I decided that’s what I want to do.”

During his time at Pinecrest, Herbert could be found creating works of art, performing in the school’s band and competing in both cross country and tennis, including being tennis captain going into his senior year.

“The first time I ever picked up a racket was my first year playing,” he recalled. “It’s really an experience because the type of team I was on was more of a family, so when I first started out, I was not very good, and they really never brought that up. Everyone on the team just kind of helped me out, the

coaches, the other players. They were very helpful and I definitely would probably not be as great of a player now or probably captain if not for the team that, through the four years, really just encouraged me through everything.”

While Herbert had big expectations for this year’s tennis team, their season was canceled as a result of COVID-19, as had a planned band performance at Disney World.

“The band, after years of being mediocre, this was the year that on our trip, we were going to crush it. We were ready. We were prepared this year, then from COVID, that’s gone,” Herbert said. “Then tennis especially, we’ve been growing, we’ve been practicing so hard. This is the first year that we had extensive summer training, and our motto this year was ‘Make it to state,’ and our season was canceled before we knew it.”

Along with trips for band and sports, Herbert, who was president of the school’s Latin Honor Society and Art Honor Society, said his favorite artistic memory was hand-making a pottery bowl as part of a project to raise money to feed those who are starving.

His was the biggest made so far, the bowl a foot-and-a-half diameter, and took two weeks to finish.

When asked if he had any advice for the next generation of high school seniors and students, Herbert said how it important it was to maintain relationships made at school.

“I’d say don’t take the friends and

teachers that you have for granted,” he said. “Often I would sit in class and I would kind of go through the classes and not really enjoy them. But now, that those teachers that really put me where I

am today or guided me on my path in choosing my career or supported me for all of it, getting notes and letters from all of them about how much they miss me, it means so much more.”

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‘Keep washing those hands’

Forsyth County gives high school graduates a virtual send-off

By Brian Paglia

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As their names were called, over 130 senior graduates in Forsyth County came not across a stage but a screen. The usual echoing cheers from family and friends were replaced by spirited congratulations with exclamation points and emoji in the comment section of the live YouTube video.

Chorus members stood 6 feet apart during a performance of “100 Years to Live.” Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Bearden made his remarks from inside the Forsyth County Board of Education headquarters.

Almost everything about Tuesday’s virtual graduation ceremony was unprecedented.

“I know this isn’t how you imagined graduation,” said North Forsyth High School’s Jessica Younghouse, the school system’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, during her pre-recorded speech.

Local high school graduation ceremonies would have been this week at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth, but the novel coronavirus pandemic forced FCS to reschedule them for the end of July. Knowing some students may be off to college by then, the school system set out to give them a graduation ceremony fit for the times.

“Pomp and Circumstance” played during the ceremony’s opening. West Forsyth senior class president Kevin Huang led the pledge of allegiance. Denmark senior class president Donnell Budjoe sang the national anthem. Then Dr. Bearden was introduced by Lambert senior class president Elena Lopez.

The class of 2020, Dr. Bearden said, had shown “hard work,” “perseverance” and “resiliency” in finishing their high school experience from home since midMarch.

“These are the attributes … that will serve you the rest of your life,” he said.

He also pointed to the work being done around the world to develop treatments and vaccines to curb the spread of a virus that has infected nearly 5.6 million and killed over 350,000 around the world.

“We talk in our schools all the time about the impor-

tance of collaboration, creativity and problem solving,” Dr. Bearden said. “Today, we are seeing that in action all over the world.”

He added, ““Keep working hard, take care of one another, love one another, and most importantly, keep washing those hands.”

Bearden made the official conferment of diplomas.

The graduates were named, one by one, from Denmark’s Ethan Afflick to Lambert’s Garrison Zagorski, a slide for each with their picture and a note about their future plans. South Forsyth senior class president Bryan Walker conducted the (virtual) turning of the tassel.

Finally, the principals from FCS’s six celebrating

‘I am West Forsyth. We are family.

-West Forsyth’s Karl Mercer

‘Nothing good happens after midnight.’

- Forsyth Central’s Mitch Young

‘Once a Dane always a Dane.’

- Denmark’s Heather Gordy

‘Giddy up, hook’em Horns.’

- Lambert’s Dr. Gary Davison

schools combined efforts to close the ceremony. They lauded the class of 2020 for their grit and implored graduates to come back to school and visit.

Then they left graduates with some of the most interminable yet memorable refrains from the last four years.

“Once a Dane, always a Dane,” said Denmark’s Heather Gordy.

“Giddy up,” said Lambert’s Dr. Gary Davison, and “hook’em Horns.”

“I am West Forsyth,” said West Forsyth’s Karl Mercer. “We are family.”

“I am West Forsyth,” said West Forsyth’s Karl Mercer. “We are family.”

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Horizon graduate aims to lead young minds

By Sabrina Kerns

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Bennett Ross spent much of her time outside of class in high school on the basketball court, getting lost in the game and closer to teammates. After years of playing, however, Ross decided to help the school’s teams in a totally different way.

Beginning her senior year, the now Horizon Christian Academy graduate traded the court for the sidelines as she helped coach the middle school girls’ basketball team. Ross turned into a leader for some of the younger kids in her school, and felt she was finally able to give her input and help out.

“And it was just a great way to connect with the younger students at my school,” Ross said.

Ross loved using her experience to help teach the girls, but most importantly, she said she loved simply being there for them. She already had plenty of experience mentoring middle school aged children at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, and she said that is where her enthusiasm for leading and teaching kids started.

“I think middle schoolers are so overlooked as humans,” Ross said. “They’re just kind of in that really awkward phase where it’s like, ‘Oh middle schoolers are so much trouble,’ but I don’t know. I just love how much energy they have and kind of how unique and different they all are in them going through all those stages. I just want to be there to help them.”

Ross also led students through the student council during her junior and senior years, eventually taking over as senior class president. The spot gave her the opportunity to share with administration members and teachers how students felt about certain projects, opportunities and events.

An ambitious and determined student, Ross was also in the National Honors Society and played on the school’s volleyball team all while also working part-

time at Publix to save up for college.

While she has always been an independent and driven student, Ross said that she hit a roadblock during her junior year when she was having a difficult time reading for her British literature class. After a while, she ended up going to see her counselor to ask for help and later found out that she has dyslexia.

“I’m a very determined person, like I wouldn’t let myself fail,” Ross said. “I would read those things over and over and over and look them up online and try to understand them. Really just my brain kept mixing up the words, so figuring that out so late was like — oh, maybe I should try to listen to myself and not try to go against myself and be determined to try to do it myself and actually get some help from other people.”

During her junior year, Ross met with Pam Seaburg, a counselor who helped students with learning disabilities, two to three times a week. Now, she has a much easier time understanding and completing her classwork, and she is grateful that she learned early on that asking for help is not a weakness.

Going forward, Ross said that her love for coaching younger students along with her interest in her math and science classes are some of the best memories from Horizon that she plans to take with her when she leaves for Milledgeville to attend Georgia College and State University in the fall. She plans to study middle grades education with a focus in science — a decision she said was inspired by her AP Chemistry and Forensics teacher Sharon McGehee.

After she drives the more than two hours to Milledgeville, Ross said that she will definitely miss her parents and brothers, but she said her family is already starting to plan out their visits for the next semester.

More than anything, Ross is excited to meet new people in college and for life to get back to normal.

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“Good luck to all the graduates from Oak Grove Baptist Church! It has been an absolute pleasure to teach these great young people in Sunday School.” - Cindy Mills

Anna Grace Cheatham NFHS Will be attending the University of Georgia

Alexander Gravitt NFHS Will be attending the School of Music at Kennesaw State University. Alex also earned his Eagle Rank in Boy Scouts

Caroline Martin NFHS Will be attending the University of North Georgia and will play basketball there.

Andrew Sexton NFHS Will be attending the University of North Georgia.

Emma Francis Georgia Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Economics and International Affairs with a Spanish Minor

Brady Grindle Kennesaw State University Bachelor of Science in Sports Management

Matison “Mattie” Grindle University of Georgia Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in Poultry Science

Andrew Grogan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bachelor of the Arts in Philosophy

Caroline Hood University of Alabama Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Science

Jarret Paige University of Georgia Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering

William “Holt” Roberts Georgia Institute of Technology Bachelor Science in Neuroscience with a Minor in Health and Medical Sciences

Rachel Ackerman Athens Technical College Associate of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene

Joseph Bailey Mercer University Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences

Justin Denard Emory University Master of Business Administration

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