margaret anne gunter By JD McCarthy Photos Contributed By Margaret Anne Gunter
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argaret Anne Gunter has attended Trinity Christian her entire life and said she would not trade her time there for anything. “I’m just really grateful that I had the opportunity to go here,” Gunter said. “I feel like it prepared me really well for college. It's challenging academically but it has taught me how to work hard … It’s this hidden gem.” When asked if she had a favorite memory, she could not pick one, asking instead, “Can I give three maybe?” Unsurprisingly, both of her memories involved her and her classmates, who she said she sees as siblings. The first favorite memory was in her junior year when Trinity hosted the first dance she attended. “One of the most fun events at Trinity was two years ago, when we had our first dance,” she said. “We don’t have proms or anything, but it was called Protocol. And the whole year we had to learn how to ballroom dance. We had to learn how to waltz, and foxtrot and swing dance and how to do line dances too. Protocol was a highlight. That was a whole lot of fun.” The second memory she recalled was when her class and the grade above them went to Washington D.C. for over a week and got to see the famous monuments and toured the Smithsonian. Gunter participated in several different clubs throughout her time at Trinity but found her calling in the music department. She has spent the last four years as a section leader in the percussion band, played keyboard in the jazz band, sang in the choir since seventh grade and plays the harp. Gunter plans on becoming an orchestral harpist with the ultimate goal of being a harpist in one of the United States armed forces bands. To achieve that goal, she plans to attend the University of North Texas. She chose UNT because of its music school, great harp professor and the option to attend a large school. A great scholarship didn’t hurt either. While there, she plans to major in Harp Performance and minor in Mathematics.
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