Winter 2011 - K-Space Web Page - Central Catholic High School

4 Student Life | Winter 2011Meet Our StudentsDeShone Kizer – FreshmanDeShone was the quarterback for the freshmanfootball team last fall, and he is currently theonly freshman on the Fighting Irish varsitybasketball team. He also plans to play baseballin the spring. DeShone attended DeVeauxJunior High and has participated in travelsports leagues. He is on the CCHS honor roll.Outside of school, DeShone enjoys babysittingand playing sports. He is interested in architecture and attended anarchitecture camp. He plans to join the Architecture Club at CentralCatholic, and he hopes to major in it in college, perhaps at theUniversity of Cincinnati or Purdue.DeShone’s favorite class is math because he loves numbers, andhe says Coach Paul Patterson makes the class fun and upbeat.DeShone is also a good speller, and he remembers being one of thefinalists in Toledo’s citywide spelling bee when he was in sixth grade.DeShone has an older brother who attends the University of Toledo,and a younger brother and sister who go to Elmhurst Elementary.Rebecca Shaheen – SophomoreRebecca attended Fassett Middle School andis a member of St. Ignatius Parish. She is onthe CCHS swim team and competes in the100-meter fly as well as the relay teams forthe 200-meter medley and the 200-meter and400-meter freestyle. She and several otherteam members made it to the district meetlast year, and she hopes to do at least that wellagain this season.Rebecca is on the CCHS honor roll and is thinking about enteringthe International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme next year.She is planning to go on a trip to Rome this summer with the IBstudents. Her favorite classes are math, anatomy with Mr. DaveTorrence, and physics with Mr. Chad Roberts. She hopes to studybiomedical engineering in college at the University of Michiganor Case Western University, and she would like to do cancer cellresearch.In November 2009, Rebecca traveled to Cuba with her grandmotherto meet several family members that still live in that country,including cousins and great aunts. “My grandma always talked tome about Cuba when I was a kid, and I told her one day I wantedher to take me there,” says Rebecca. “I really wanted to see what itwas like. Even though they live in a poor neighborhood and about10 people live together in a three-room house, the people are sohappy and loving. They are a lot more family oriented, and theyrealize they don’t need all the material things to be happy.”Forrest LaPointe – JuniorWith a name like Forrest, it’s inevitable thatpeople wonder if you were named after themain character in the movie, .But Forrest LaPointe says he was actually bornshortly before the movie even came out. “Mydad really loves the woods and being out in thewilderness, so he wanted to name me Forest,”he explains. “I was born in the middle ofthe night and my dad was really tired, so he spelled it with two r’sinstead of one.”Forrest attended St. Thomas Aquinas grade school and has beenplaying hockey since the age of five. He was a member of the Tam-O-Shanter house league and now plays for the Fighting Irish hockeyteam. He is also in the Ping Pong/Euchre Club and the EnviroClub. He is on the CCHS honor roll and works as a tour guide forDiscovery Days and Open House.Forrest attends Calvin United Church of Christ and does a lotof volunteer work for the church, including working with theirsummer bible school program. He also collects money for theSalvation Army at Christmas time as a bell ringer.Several classes and teachers stand out to Forrest from his first fewyears at CCHS. He says he really enjoyed the American History andLiterature block last year because he learned something new everyday, and he always felt that the classes put him in the right mindsetto learn. He also likes religion with Mrs. Connie Peebles because,“She is honest about everything and she puts everyone beforeherself.” Mr. Dave Torrence is “funny and very interesting,” and healso likes his current English class with Ms. Christine Sweitzer.Forrest says he is very interested in computers and knows howto design web sites, and he would like to go into computerprogramming in the future. His dream college would be theUniversity of Notre Dame, but he is also looking at Purdue and St.Xavier.Sara Stotz – SeniorLast summer, Sara attended a very competitivemusic program at Brevard Music Center inNorth Carolina. Over 250 students auditionedto be in the program, and Sara was one of just15 who were accepted.The three-week program consisted of musictheory, music literature, and private lessons.At the end of the program, she performed inan opera scene, playing the role of Gretel in .“For the vocal camp audition I just sang my heart out,” Sara said.“Singing is something that keeps me going. Whenever I’m in a badmood, I sing and my day perks up just like that. So I just put myselfin that mental state and I completely drifted away into anotherworld. In my audition tape you can see on my face that I was thehappiest girl in the world.”After the summer experience, Sara says she came back to school andthe Glee Club with a greater appreciation for music. “I appreciatethe little things that happen in music that I never looked for before,”she said. “I can give advice to people now and I feel like I knowwhat I’m talking about and it’s very gratifying.”Sara has performed in Central Catholic’s fall plays and winterone-acts for the past three years. She played the role of Alice in lastfall’s production of . Sara is a member of theGlee Club and played the role of Brigitta von Trapp in last spring’sproduction of . In May, she will play the part ofGlinda in the spring musical . Sara plans to attendBaldwin-Wallace College and major in music performance withopera and full classical training, and she hopes to someday appearon Broadway.www.centralcatholic.org