Top Harker Heights students both found success in music

BY TODD MARTIN S PECIAL TO THE H ERALD

They attended local schools from the elementary grades all the way up, found creative outlets and important friendships in the fine arts and wound up at the top of their graduating class.

Grace Koh is the valedictorian and Rachel Roberts is the salutatorian of the Harker Heights High School Class of 2022.

Koh is a three-time AllState Orchestra violinist and part of the National Youth Orchestra. She is headed to Northwestern University in Illinois on scholarship and will study music education.

Roberts is part of the award-winning Pitch Black acapella ensemble in the school choir, a Knight Club performer and member of the Knights of the Round Table. She is headed to ranked first, second and third at various times the past four years. She is the orchestra president and National Honor Society president. Showing her range, she is also the school’s prom queen.

Texas Tech University and the honors program where she plans to study architecture.

Grace Koh, right, is the valedictorian and Rachel Roberts is the salutatorian of the Harker Heights High School Class of 2022. Graduation is 7 p.m. Saturday, May 28 at the Bell County Expo Center.

“I was excited,” said Roberts of finding out she is salutatorian. “I’ve been (ranked) two to four the last few years. I was happy to find out I was still second.”

“It’s very rewarding and relieving,” said Koh. “It’s worth all the hard work I put into it.” She has been

She took numerous Advanced Placement and dual credit classes, was part of the architecture program at the KISD Career Center and performed with the school choir. She was also part of National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society.

“It’s been a lot of study-