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If you want assurance that there’s little amiss with the younger gen-eration, just read the stories here

about graduating seniors from all over Latah and Whitman counties.

From both big schools and small, traditional schools and alternatives, these students have plans for con-tinuing their education and many of them have goals beyond that.

They look back on their time in high school and credit family and teachers — and themselves — for providing inspiration, direction and a kick in the butt when neces-sary.

Some plan to seek additional education

across town, some down the hill, some across the mountains and some across the country.

In the group we talked to, there may be a future NASCAR mechanic, a world traveler, a basketball-play-ing school teacher, a recording star, a CPA, an Air Force engineer, a 3D design engineer, a dental assistant, a guitarist, a baker and an agricul-ture teacher.

And then, of course, college and life have a way of opening the hori-zon even wider to those ready to take on challenges.

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By Kelsey HuskyDaily News staff writer

Aaron Haugen is one of six children. Sometimes, he’s one of five. At one point, he was one of three.

The 18-year-old Pullman High School graduate’s parents have been fos-ter parents for about 10 years.

He has two blood-related siblings, two that were fos-ter-adopted into his family and one, a 4-year-old, who his family has fostered for two years.

“It’s definitely been an experience,” he said. “Looking back, I’m glad we did it.”

However, he’s always been the oldest.

“It’s made me pretty good with kids,” he said.

He was too young to comprehend what exactly it meant to have foster-sib-lings when his family start-ed, he said, but it wasn’t a big deal — he was just excited to have more chil-dren in the house to play with.

Some have pretty severe issues, he said, and he’s good

at adapting to their needs and helping them under-stand what their family is like, even if the communica-tion is a bit different.

Haugen will continue his education at Washington State University in the fall, most likely studying accounting.

That’s because he likes math and working with money, he said.

He’s lived in Pullman his whole life and wants to stay

in the area for a bit longer.“I like the small-town

feel,” he said, and that he can walk downtown and say hello to people he knows.

Haugen has played soccer

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since fourth grade, often with the same group of boys.

“We’ve bonded, and I’ve made good friends on the soc-cer team,” he said.

He’s also a cross-country runner.

He said a friend mentioned the team needed more boys, so he joined, not knowing what he was getting himself into.

Then, he started winning.

He only started running in eighth grade, he said, but went to state competitions for his junior and senior years in high school.

He said he wants to contin-ue running through Pullman’s many recreational paths and scenic roadways for fun, but won’t pursue competitive running in college.

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Raven Elkins is taking a less traditional path than many girls on the Palouse.

The 18-year-old Colfax High School graduate is going to be a Husky.

At the University of Washington, she’ll enroll in the Air Force ROTC program and study civil engineering.

Elkins said she and her friends joked about the idea of joining the ROTC, but when she really sat and thought about it, she knew it’s what she wanted to do.

“I like the feeling of being on a team,” she said.

She played post for CHS’s basketball team. Her other hobbies include camp-ing and dirt-biking with her six-member family.

So far, she’s met with recruiters a few times but won’t officially sign on until this summer.

Laughing, she said she’s hoping the early morning physical training routines will keep away the dreaded

“freshman 15,” the traditional weight gain that affects many first-year college students.

Elkins said her interest in civil engineering began while in a science class, when her teacher said, “This is what engineers do.”

She said as an Air Force engineer she hopes to help rebuild overseas areas that have been damaged by

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Elkins describes herself as social, and she’s excited to meet new friends on the west side of the state. She’s originally from Rosalia and has lived in Colfax

for a just a few years, but isn’t nervous about big city life.

“UW fits me because it feels like a campus,” she said, and Washington State University is just too close to home.

Plus, there will be more boys at UW, she said, hope-fully some that can match up to her 5-foot-11-inch stature.

And although her family supports her decisions to have

a less-than-traditional future, her funny friends haven’t been as kind.

One friend has a strike system — according to that, Elkins has only one strike left since she’s going to Seattle and

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Nervous is something Benjamin Weagraff doesn’t feel much.

The 18-year-old Gar-Pal graduate considers himself the class clown. He’s been in school plays, and performed a song he wrote in front of 30,000 people in October at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis.

Weagraff is working with a music agent based in Los Angeles and New York City to sign a record deal. He already hired an acting agent from Spokane in February.

“It’s fun to watch people smile,” he said about perform-ing.

He plays guitar, bass, drums

and piano, all self-taught with the blessing of his family.

“They were a little nervous about me not going to college,” he said.

But he wants to show people that college isn’t the only road one can take.

His classmates also are sup-portive of his dreams.

“They’re all asking for auto-graphs already,” he said laugh-ing.

Weagraff’s music focuses on the positive — you won’t find references to drugs, drinking or sex in his lyrics. He likes

to listen to John Mayer and Justin Bieber.

As a pastor’s son, he’s Christian but writes secular music that he wants fans to feel is uplifting, helpful and positive. He even turned down a TV role because the show was too sexual in nature.

His dream is to be on the Disney Channel because it reaches out to children in a good way, and his inspiration is Disney star Selena Gomez.

If his Disney career is years from now, he wants play a par-ent, he said.

“It’s a great environment,” he said.

Weagraff likes acting because he can be someone else without not being himself — he said it’s confusing, but true.

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Clorisa Johndro’s life is alter-native not just in where she attends school, but her living arrangements as well.

Unlike most of her classmates and individuals her age, 18-year-old Johndro lives with a room-mate instead of her parents. She supports herself as an employee at Taco Time, working as many as 20 to 30 hours per week while balancing school at Paradise Creek Regional Alternative High School, which she’s been attend-ing since April 2010. Though she doesn’t live with her parents, she maintains contact with them and still sees them.

“You know, kids and parents will have some issues, and we came on an agreement that I would move out,” Johndro said.

While she said she doesn’t regret the decision to move out

and enjoys the freedom, it’s not the easiest arrangement.

“It’s definitely different, it’s definitely harder,” Johndro said. “It was hard for a while, but it kind of got easy, because I knew what responsibilities needed to come first. I made sure I had a lot of saved up money so I wouldn’t have to worry so much about it. It’s more fun because you have more freedom, so you can go do what you want ... not having to be

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Losing her brother and best friend in a logging accident four years ago devastated Traci Cameron and her family, but she wouldn’t let it stop her from finding success in high school.

“I just used school as a distrac-tion,” Cameron said.

She’s spent all four years at Deary High School as a letter band member playing clarinet, as a letter tennis player and a part of the honor society. She’s an editor on the yearbook and has been a teaching assistant for the elementary school’s band, as well as a participant in the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. Not only did the activities help distract her, but Cameron said the people were benefi-

cial to her as well. “They just comforted

me,” Cameron said. “It helped me out a little bit.”

Though she isn’t the bragging type and downplays her involve-ment, Cameron’s moth-er said her daughter

has worked to overcome the loss of her 26-year-old brother and she’s proud of her accomplishments.

Cameron and her parents are moving to Spokane this fall, where her sister lives.

She plans to attend Carrington College to become a dental assistant and keep doing music on the side. After 33 years of the family living in Deary, the change will be a big one, though she said it will be a little easier since her family is moving with her. Cameron admits she’s a little nervous, but said she’s looking for-ward to beginning a new life path.

“I like math a lot — I’m not so big on science,” Cameron said. “... I talked to my dentist (about assisting) and sort of saw how people worked.”

She points to Teresa Clampitt, a health teacher, as a strong influence, mentioning her laugh and supportive nature. Cameron also singled out her yearbook teacher and the experience of being on yearbook, where decisions


of your life is pretty nice.”Johndro said the teaching

style at Paradise Creek has been beneficial for her as well, because she couldn’t focus well at her previous school. After moving out on her own, she applied to Paradise because she knew she needed to finish high school to make progress in her life.

“You can focus a lot bet-ter because everybody’s there for pretty much one reason, which is to get schooling done,” Johndro said. “And there’s only three classes in a quarter so instead of focus-ing on six different classes, in the same amount of time you can focus on three. ... At

the regular high school, I just couldn’t grasp how they were teaching and I was kinda fail-ing the classes so I ended up dropping out and then I went to Paradise, and I just under-stand it better.”

After graduation, Johndro plans to stay in Moscow and work for a while to take a break from the stress of school. But her eventual goal is to move to Spokane and go to school to become a baker, since she likes food — just not the fast food industry.

“In a sense there’s no limits, I guess, you can pretty much make whatever you want,” Johndro said.

Kelcie Moseley can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 236, or by e-mail to [email protected].

Rising up from tragedyDeary grad moving to Spokane to pursue dental assisting

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Traci Cameron

By Holly BowenDaily News staff writer

Ashley and Angela Carpenter have almost fin-ished their studies at Potlatch High School, a place where they have spent countless hours together as classmates, friends and sisters.

The fraternal twins plan to stick together as they make the journey to attend Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston this fall.

“She’s my built-in best friend,” Angela said about Ashley. “She can complete my sentences sometimes.”

“My favorite part (of being a twin) is you always have someone to hang out with,” Ashley said, adding that her least favorite part about twin-hood is having to share every-thing.

The sisters have lived near Princeton all their lives and said moving to Lewiston will be a change of pace, especially because they will be living in a residence hall.

“I’ve been in the same room since I’ve been born,” Ashley said.

Angela said the fact that she is moving later this sum-mer “hasn’t hit me yet.”

She has already gotten a head start on her nursing edu-cation, as she has taken LCSC dual-credit classes online while at PHS and is on track to become a certified nursing assistant.

“I really fell in love with medicine,” she said, adding that their older sister is a reg-istered nurse.

Angela said she has enjoyed taking online college classes.

“I actually work very well online because I like patience and quiet,” she said. “It allows me the flexibility to do it on my own terms.”

She said she may even-tually look into enrolling in medical school, preferably in

Portland, Ore.Ashley, on the other hand,

said she plans to study second-ary-level social studies because she eventually wants to be a history teacher.

“I’ve always wanted to be a teacher because I guess I’ve always been bossy like that,” she said.

Both Ashley and Angela stay busy with music; drama; Family, Career and Community Leaders of America; Idaho Drug-Free Youth; Junior Miss; church activities; the National Honor Society and 4-H. They said they raise pigs on their fami-ly’s 27 acres near Princeton.

Living in Lewiston will be different, but the Carpenter sisters won’t be too far from home.

“It’s good to have a home-town you can go back to,” Ashley said about Potlatch and Princeton.

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Ashley, Angela Carpenter plan to attend LCSC

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For Troy High School student Aaron Yama, drawing has extended far past superheroes, Japanese anime and science fiction and into com-puter engineering.

Yama is headed to Lewis-Clark State College in the fall, where he hopes to study using

SolidWorks, a 3D design software program. He started experimenting with the program after a teacher introduced it to him, and found he had a particular affinity for it.

“I like it because it’s drawing, you kind of cre-ate your own thing,” Yama said. “Basically with SolidWorks, it makes you think because you have to think in three planes ...

and you have to tell the program to build it up to make the 3D model.”

When he’s not on the computer, the most likely place to find Yama is the track. He has partici-pated in track every year of high school, three of which he spent in cross-country as well.

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currently travels was a leadership class, which, he said, gave him opportunities that have brought him out of his shell in a way.

“In Leadership, we had to cook a recipe that we usually made at home in front of the class, and I’d never really cooked before, so that helped me be more confident about myself,” Yama said. “We also learned a bit about finances ... (like) how to live on your own, earn money, save it, manage your time and stuff. I remember one activity where we had a fake college schedule, so we had to make a list of assignments we had

to do and build a schedule of what we’d do during the day. ... So that taught us time management skills, mostly.”

He said he’s not nervous about grad-uating, but he is looking forward to the

freedom that will come along with living on his own in Lewiston, like a “normal adult.” He’ll go to school for a year, see what he enjoys doing and take it from there.

Yama said he chose LCSC for its proximity and price, but also for the SolidWorks program and the low teacher-to-student ratio — which is what he also enjoys about THS and the Troy community. The teachers, he said, have made all the difference.

“If you ask them, they’ll help you out and kind of lead you in the right direction,” Yama said. And they will “kick your butt if you’re not going in the right direction. They’re motivational.”


are made daily about what is worthy of being placed in the yearbook.

Cameron expressed an eagerness to leave high school and move on, but said she’ll miss some aspects of it all.

“I’ve enjoyed all the people I come in contact with,” Cameron said. “I really liked playing in the honor band, and in the last year (when) I sang with the honor choir in Lewiston.”


a bad actor. A bad actor acts, and a good actor is a real person in a fake situation.

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Justin Pickard spent all 14 years of his educa-tion, preschool through 12th grade, in the Genesee district but is excited to attend the University of Idaho this fall.

“I’m not nervous at all,” Pickard said. “The campus is awesome, and I’ve already met my professors and they are really involved. I’ve spent a lot of time in Moscow with family, and I really like it.”

Pickard has been involved in every aspect of the FFA organization, “everything from swine breeding to egg mechanics,” he said.

Pickard even ran his own lawn-mowing agri-busi-ness through FFA. He said it taught him every detail of running a small business, from hiring and firing employ-ees to filing taxes.

Pickard hopes to be

involved in collegiate FFA where the main activities include organizing and judg-ing local district FFA compe-titions and events.

“I want to pass along what I have learned,” he said. “FFA will take you where you want to go as long as you want it, and you try.”

Pickard couldn’t choose just one influential person in his 14 years of schooling but said it was a combination of the teachers at Genesee, his family and the community.

“Every teacher plays a spe-cific role in Genesee, they’re all really helpful,” he said. “Every step of the way the community has been amaz-ing.”

Taking after his mom, Pickard plans to study to become a teacher.

“She always seemed to have a smile on her face when she came home from work,”

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he said. “It’s a more relaxed environment and summers off isn’t bad either.”

He wants to combine his passions for agriculture and teaching by becoming a secondary school agricul-tural teacher in the Pacific Northwest.

Along with FFA, Pickard has been involved with 4-H, track, cross-country, drama and choir. He also was asso-ciated student body activi-ties director his junior year. He hopes to be involved in the University of Idaho jazz choir.

Pickard said, with a laugh, that his favorite memory from high school would be graduating.

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By Kasey Crawfordfor the Daily News

After being part of five state championship teams and spend-ing hundreds of hours of practic-ing and playing, Mollie Kramer knows a little something about sweat, hard work and team-work.

With four years on varsity, the last two as starting guard, Kramer had a hand in helping Colton win three of the last four state basketball championships. As a three-year starting middle hitter/blocker, she also helped the volleyball team reach state twice in the last four years. And she has been a key player in the softball team winning two state championships and a third this year, she hopes, as the team’s four-year starting catcher. (This

section went to press before this weekend’s state tournament games.)

“Sports were instilled in our everyday lives, starting in ele-mentary school,” she said.

Kramer said the time she was most nervous in a championship game was this year’s basketball state championships. It also was her favorite memory.

“We had a huge target on our backs for basketball because we had won the two years before,” she said. “Being a senior was nervous for me because I didn’t want to let the dynasty go down by losing the championship.”

Kramer said they lost one game during the regular season

and, as fate had it, the team they lost to was to be their opponent in the state championship.

“It was a rematch, and it was most memorable to win the championship,” she said. “It was a very close game; they were gunning for us. We only won by 10.”

Kramer plans on attending North Idaho College on Lake Coeur d’Alene on a basketball scholarship. After completing a two-year degree, she hopes to transfer to a four-year universi-ty to play basketball and become an elementary teacher.

“I knew I was being looked at for sports in general, and I heard that North Idaho had won the national basketball champion-ship last year,” she said. “My high school coach said I should try NIC. I fell in love with the campus and how the girls played

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COLTON HIGH SCHOOLn Graduation: 11 a.m. June 4 in the CHS gymnasiumn Seniors: 12n Valedictorian: Mikayla Nygreenn Salutatorian: Steve Eacker

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Sometime years from now when another natural disaster strikes, Dylan Curry hopes to be the musical idol who inspires people to donate money to the relief fund.

While Curry might mention his dad, gui-tar teacher and other teachers at Kendrick High School as people who have influenced him, Jon Bon Jovi has been his ultimate hero over the six years he’s spent playing guitar.

Curry will attend the University of Idaho in the fall for musical performance in clas-sical guitar, which he said will be a signifi-cant change from his current guitar style. But he said he’s looking forward to the challenge, and hopes it will lead him along the path to fame.

“I’m really just kind of going to college to buy some time to maybe get famous, that would be awesome,” Curry said. “But I know I can’t rely on that, so I’m going to get an education and see. If it happens, then awesome, ’cause that’s my dream.”

As a member of the local band Small Town Boys, Curry has spent much of his high school career performing around Moscow and the Northwest at various gigs. Though he said it’s been fairly easy to bal-ance the band and high school, college may be more difficult.

“I’m just afraid of after I go to college and get a job, juggling that and the band,” Curry said, “but I think I can do it.”

Curry said realizing his individuality has

been one of the defining experiences of high school. Though he grew up in Kendrick and said he’ll always think of it as home and a place he loves, he doesn’t exactly relate to his classmates.

“In college I’ll probably find a lot of peo-ple who are kind of like me, but after going to high school I know there’s nobody like me,” Curry said. “And I like that, I strive to be different from everybody else, I can’t stand being the same or following in the crowd. I’ve always been like that.”

Curry said the Small Town Boys are working on making T-shirts, and will focus their efforts after that on producing a new CD. While they do that, they’ll keep open-ing shows for local bands and pursuing interests in higher education — even if the ultimate dream doesn’t come true.

“I’m kind of just waiting to see what hap-pens, but I guess if the whole famous thing doesn’t work out, I wouldn’t mind being a music teacher or something,” Curry said. “As long as it has something to do with music, then I’ll be good. I’ve decided I don’t care how much money I make as long as it has to do with something I like.”


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KENDRICK HIGH SCHOOLn Graduation: 4 p.m. May 29 on KHS’s football fieldn Seniors: 18n Valedictorian: Sarah Vakochn Salutatorian: Hannah Smith

and how the coaches oper-ated.”

Sports are a family affair in the Kramer household.

Kramer said her parents, Aaron and Cheri Kramer, and her younger sister, Hannah, have been her biggest influ-ences throughout her sport-ing career.

“They push me to be the best I can be,” she said. “Even when I think I’m doing well, they push me to do a little better. They’ve made me the person who I am today.”

Kramer described her fam-

ily as sports enthusiasts who never miss cheering her and her teammates on.

“My mom’s the one in the crowd who everyone knows,” Kramer said with a laugh. “Anyone can pick her out by her screaming.”

With the little free time she has after school, home-work, practice and games, Kramer enjoys watching Disney and old fashioned movies with friends. She also enjoys spending time with her grandmother and listening to stories of her life.

Kramer was last year’s Colton Junior Miss first alter-nate as well as the 2010-2011

Palouse Empire Fair Queen. She showed sheep and pigs in FFA and was the chapter trea-surer. She also was class sec-retary for two years. Kramer danced her freshman year, was in the high school band and Senior Stomp, a form of dance.

All her activities and sports have given Kramer the confidence she needs to leave the tight-knit community to attend college.

“I believe I will have a great experience there,” she said.

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By Holly BowenDaily News staff writer

Logos School senior Valerie Foucachon has already traveled much of the world and will be settling in at home in Moscow for her college education.

After spending this summer in France with her family, she’ll enroll at New Saint Andrews College in the fall.

“I do love literature, and NSA gives an excel-lent foundation in that,” she said, adding that she wants an education with Christian roots.

Foucachon holds U.S., Canadian and French passports and speaks both English and French as a result of her parents’ trips abroad for work and vacation. She joked that her international connections cut down on lines at the airport.

“I was born in Quebec but mostly grew up in France when my dad was a pastor,” she said.

Her family’s time in France gave her the opportunity to visit nearby countries like Hungary, Turkey and Greece.

Foucachon’s family moved to Moscow in August 2005 and operated the West of Paris restaurant downtown until selling it earlier this

year.She said she spent some time as an appren-

tice to her father, working mostly in the kitchen but also serving food to customers.

“I enjoyed meeting people through that,” she said.

Even though food is a large part of her life, Foucachon said her love of literature could lead her toward the teaching profession. She said she also enjoys fashion design, astronomy, drama and singing.

She said her favorite types of literature include mystery novels, older works by writers like Jane Austen and William Shakespeare and poetry.

As for her favorite foods, she said she enjoys her father’s Christmas dinners, which typically include items like leg of lamb or venison in addi-tion to French and Swiss chocolate.

Foucachon won’t be too far from her friends and former teachers at Logos School after she graduates and begins classes at NSA.

Never too far from homeLogos student’s travels lead her back to Moscow

LOGOS HIGH SCHOOLn Graduation: 3 p.m. today at the University of Idaho Administration Building Auditoriumn Seniors: 13n Valedictorian: Meryn Flackn Salutatorian: Hannah Page

She said there are “so many things to love” about Logos School, particularly the teachers.

“They’re not just there to teach information,” she said. “You can see their love for Christ come through. They really care about each student individually.”

Foucachon said she’s not quite

ready to commit to specific plans after finishing college.

“We’ll see where God takes me after NSA,” she said.

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