Author: Anslee Wolfe
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Sam Johnson inducted into The Colorado Springs School Hall of Fame
Two decades after graduating from The Colorado Springs School, Shannon O’Keefe remembers the impact her Upper School Science Teacher Sam Johnson had on her. “We’d go on these Experience-Centered Seminars, and he would see a roadcut, somewhere a road had been cut into a hillside. We’d pull over and 15 of us would pile out…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Public health and community motivate teen
This is the nineteenth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. – A trip to India last summer sparked a passion in Isabella Nuñez that she shared with her whole school. “We stayed in a small village in India, and they re-use apricot pits there that are being thrown away…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Sense of balance will help student’s dream of studying music
This is the seventeenth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. For years, Brenna “Bee” Franklin lived with anxiety, but last year it overtook her life. “I worried about people around me hurting me. I worried about panicking in public, worried about being good enough, to the point where I…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Tragedies taught teen invaluable life lessons
This is the thirteenth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. At age eight, Grace Meluso’s world changed when her father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “Life can be filled with the most fulfilling joy and amazing happiness, or ‘mountaintop’ experiences, if you will,” she said. “It can, however, leave…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Math mentor wants to better the environment
This is the tenth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. Teaching math to seventh graders became more than Sarah Weidman expected. She spent three weeks last summer as a mentor and teaching assistant at REACH, a program offered through the Colorado Springs School to local middle school students who…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Independence teaches valuable lesson
This is the sixth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. One of Anna Chavez’s defining moments occurred in the third grade after her father spent about two months in the hospital. Her dad was diagnosed with severe pancreatitis, among other medical issues, and underwent 17 surgeries. Chavez spent much…
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Best and Brightest:
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This is the 23rd of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. A knee injury changed Brooke Shade’s plans of playing college basketball. At this time last year, the Liberty High…
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Best and Brightest: Volunteering after fires helped Colorado Springs student gain new perspective
This is the 14th of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. Jimmy Velten spent days sifting through the rubble of burned houses, looking for anything that may be valuable to the people who lost their homes. He was volunteering with a group helping victims of the 2013 Black Forest fire,…
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Best & Brightest: Baron learned painful lesson about taking action
This is the 12th of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. Heide Baron got a devastating text last year as she was walking to class. Her close friend told her he’d swallowed a handful of pills. She went to class, sobbing, and told her teacher. The school counselor called 911…
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Best and Brightest 2015: Teen defies stereotypes, chooses own path
This is the last of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2015. Lórien MacEnulty is choosing her own path and that means she can be both Christian and Democrat, even if it disappoints others. “Society categorizes the two at opposite ends of the political spectrum, claiming Christians to be of a…