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Lauren Kiker

She is graduating from Ronald Reagan High School. Laura has been very involved in school, sports, spirit, and community service organizations as well as holding several leadership roles. Academically she has been able to maintain her grades while working all through high school. She has also taken it upon herself to help care for her recently paralyzed older brother. One of her teachers says "Laura can do anything that she sets her mind to and she sets her mind to many challenging goals." She is a natural leader. Laura has been accepted to Texas A&M University . She will pursue a degree in Business Administration.

Alyssa Brietzke

She is from East Central High School. Alyssa wrote of the struggles and challenges she faced after her mother passed away the summer of her freshman year, in a car accident that also severely injured her father. Alyssa took on more responsibility at home in caring for her father and younger brother all the while keeping up with school and numerous extra curricular activities, including playing tennis and showing steers in FFA. She wrote of her will and determination to achieve her goals. She is that Valedictorian of her class. Alyssa has been accepted at the University of Texas in the McCombs School of Business. She will be Majoring in Accounting. She plans on obtaining her CPA.

A'Rielle Gatlin

She is graduating from Sam Houston High School as the Valedictorian. Throughout her high school career A'Rielle has numerous honors and awards and has held several leadership roles. This past summer she interned with CPS's Audit Department and spent a lot of time in the accounting division. She plans on attending the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and will major in Accounting. She plans on obtaining her CPA.

Carolyn Solorzano

She graduated from MacArthur High School. Carolyn always knew she wanted to be a Business Professional. She grew up with parents in the Insurance Business. That experience establishes a desire to one day own her own business, and she knew that it would be to her best interest and advantage to go to college and earn a degree. She has completed her second year at the University of Texas. Carolyn is involved in numerous activities and has received quite a few honors including the McCombs School of Business College Scholar. Carolyn will pursue a degree in Accounting and hopes to graduate with enough credits to sit for the CPA Exam.

Zachary Varner

He will be graduating from Bandera High School Summa Cum Laude and as distinguished graduate. He has been involved, to say the least his whole high school career. Numerous extra curricular activities, club memberships, offices held, committee involvement. Activities too numerous to mention not counting all his community service he has been involved in. Outstanding does not even begin to describe Zachary. Zachary talks of the challenges he has faced overcoming his speech handicap. The struggles his medical health issues have brought to his life have motivated him to succeed. Zachary states that his life has been living proof that just because a person is handicapped does not mean that they are not intelligent and that just because you are intelligent does not mean that you can not have a handicap.

Zachary is ranked third in his class with a perfect 4.00 GPA. He made a perfect score on the social studies test on the ACT. Zachary plans to attend Howard Payne University majoring in Management Information Systems. He dreams of owning and operating his own consulting firm.