Senior profiles — May 8

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about local graduating high school seniors.

Gramzow

Andrew Gramzow will join the fire department after he graduates from high school.

He participated in football, baseball, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and track in high school.

What was your proudest moment in high school?

Passing math.

What was the funniest thing that ever happened to you in high school?

A friend’s mom called me out in class. I gave her a nickname, and my friend called me out on it in front of her, and she asked me what it meant. I was pretty embarrassed.

Banther

After she graduates, Jaecy Banther plans to attend Eastern New Mexico University for two and a half years to pursue a pre-med degree. After she graduates from ENMU, she will transfer to Texas Tech University to attend medical school.

In high school she participated in National Honor Society, volleyball, softball and cheerleading.

What scares you the most about entering the real world?

I don’t know. Everything.

What do you think is the advantage of going to a small school like Dora?

Probably the small classes and everyone getting to know each other. The teachers actually care about you and care that you succeed.

McConnell

Samuel McConnell plans to attend ENMU after graduation, where he will “major in education and become a teacher.”

In high school he participated in basketball, baseball and NHS.

What do you hope to accomplish above anything else in life?

Have a big family and have them all live past their 50s.

If you could trade places with anyone for one day, who would it be?

Ashton Kutcher, because he’s married to Mila Kunis.

—Compiled by Staff Writer Eamon Scarbrough