[Ohiogift] Teen Stars

[Will Fitzhugh]

TWO GROUPS of TEENS

June 2013

Which teens get U.S. National Recognition? (excerpts)



“Ky Westbrook of Chandler, Arizona: Ky, a junior at Chandler High, won the Dream 100 race at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York City by .03 of a second in 11.52, against a .4 mph headwind....”

“Steven Sumph of Moraga, California: Steven, a senior at Campolindo High, won the 100-yard breastroke at the CIF––North Coast Sectional championships in 53.39, the fastest time ever by a U.S. high school swimmer...”

“Carley Hoover of Clemson, South Carolina: Carley, a senior righthander at D.W. Daniel High, pitched a no-hitter in the Class 3A state championship, her second no-hitter of the playoffs, for a 4-0 win over Darlington High and the Lions’ first title...”

“Ben Saarel of Salt Lake City, Utah: Ben, a senior at Park City High, won the Dream Mile at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York City, defeating the runner-up by 2.32 seconds in 4:02:72 for the top time in Utah history....”


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Nathaniel Bernstein of San Francisco, California: Bernstein, a senior at San Francisco University High School, published an 11,176-word history research paper on the unintended consequences of Direct Legislation in California.

Gabriel Grand of Bronx, New York: Grand, a senior at Horace Mann School, published a 9,250-word history research paper on the difficulties The New York Times had with the anti-semitism of the day and also in covering the Holocaust.

Reid Grinspoon of Waltham, Massachusetts: Grinspoon, a senior at Gann Academy, published a 7,380-word history research paper on the defeat of legislation to allow eugenic sterilization in Massachusetts.

Emma Scoble of Oakland, California: Scoble a senior at the College Preparatory Academy, published a 9,657-word history research paper on the Broderick-Terry Duel, which defeated pro-slavery forces in California in 1859.

Gen Shiraishi of Yokohama, Japan: Shiraishi, a senior at St. Maur International School, published a 6,994-word history research paper (in his second language) on the history of Christianity in Japan.

Malcolm Steinberg of Washington, DC: Steinberg, a senior at St. Albans School, published a 5,838-word history research paper on the Astor Place Riots of 1849 between social classes over favored actors and the social politics of the day in New York City.

Emily Yankowitz of Scarsdale, New York: Yankowitz, a senior at Scarsdale High School, published an 8,720-word history research paper on Robert Mugabe’s criminal regime in Zimbabwe.


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The first group of teens is among those who get weekly recognition in the “Faces in the Crowd” section of Sports Illustrated.

The second group is the annual Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize-winners from the four issues of Volume 23 of The Concord Review, the only academic journal in the world for the history research papers of high school students.




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