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Presidential Library, the Butler Institute for Arkansas Studies, the Library of Congress and other archives. Her most recent award: to present her paper “Black Historians and the Writing of History in the 19th and early 20th centuries: What Legacy?” last June at the University Paris Diderot.
ANDREW WALCHUK
Conway High School Law school, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Andrew Walchuk, who was a Bodenhamer Fellow at the University of Arkansas, where he majored in political science, international relations, European studies and Spanish (“AP credits and summer studies made for a lot of room in my schedule”), is in his first year of law school at Yale University. Between college and law school, Walchuk taught in Madrid for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship and worked for the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts. He is interested in a career in inter-
national law and human rights; this summer he will study in Argentina and work in New York on LGBT rights at Lamda Legal. His advice to his high-school self and this year’s class of All-Stars: “1. Success in school does not necessarily equal success in life. 2. Your plans are always going to change, so stop stressing out about them. 3. Arkansas has its problems, but there really is no place like home.”
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CARESS REEVES
Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School Master’s candidate in digital arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The winner of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Fellowship for graduate students, Reeves is in the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts program. An animator herself, she has studied black animators and black images in animation, and last summer gave a talk, “Animation as Political Radicalism: Black Animators in the Field,” at the Soci-
ety for Animation Studies Conference. Advice for her high-school self: Do not be fooled by the amount of free time you will have as an undergrad.
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JOHN LEPINE
Little Rock Christian Academy English teacher, Tulsa, Okla.
John Lepine, who graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in Spradley, who economics, teaches holds a bachelor’s 8th grade English degree in anthrothrough the Teach pology from the for American proUniversity of gram at McLain Arkansas, is getJunior High School, ting a Ph.D. in evowhere “I’ve learned lutionary anthroa lot, and my kids pology, with a tell me that they have, too, which I think research focus on is the idea.” At TU, Lepine was involved in paleontology, at the Presbyterian Church’s campus ministry, Duke. He’s gone Reformed University Fellowship; covered on fossil hunts in football for the student paper; spearheaded the Patagonia region of Argentina and the a project to renovate the racquetball courts, Big Bend region of West Texas. He teaches and brought the rock band Imagine Draganatomy to Duke undergraduates and medi- ons to campus. Lepine says he returns to cal school students (“just announced to be Arkansas “whenever possible” to see family in the top 5 percent of the best-rated classes “and eat a good rack of ribs.” Cabot High School Doctoral student, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
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at Duke!”) He quotes Albert Einstein: “The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”