Janna Deering
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Janna Deering was born and raised in Traverse City, and she is raising her three kids here too. She grew up with intentions of becoming a veterinarian, but she found herself being drawn back to Central High School. While she might not always be recognized by students in the hallways, she’s often no more than a few steps away from classrooms in the F-Building. Deering spends her days in her corner office of F158 planning and improving upon after-school athletic events for TCAPS as the LEAP K-8 Athletic Director. When not at work, she enjoys spending time outside. “In the summertime we’re at the beach or on our boat with our kids, come wintertime lots of downhill skiing,” Deering said. She has recently acquired a skill that can come in handy in all aspects of life: the art of Nunchi. “There’s this thing called Nunchi, it’s a Korean concept taught over in Asia about being able to sense other people’s cues without them having to say anything,” she said. Although Deering has not been practicing the skill for very long, she finds herself picking it up fairly quickly.
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by: MALLORY SWOPE staff writer
In our spin-off of Human of New York, the Black & Gold Quarterly went out into the Central High School community in search of uniquity. Our mission was to find inspiring stories and share them to encourage self-expression. Through a variety of randomly selected people, we were about to find one commonality: passion. Stories like theirs are what makes us believe in the power that comes from expression through journalism. People are art. We feel combining their words with a visual story, a unique and inspiring message is created. Members of our community have conveyed their identities and inspired us through their words and sense of passion. To us, this is the truest kind of journalism--finding moving stories and sharing them.
14// BGQ // January 2020
