Abbotsford News, August 22, 2014

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Lori Witmer recalls that while pushing her son Jeremy in a shopping cart as a young child, he would recite the numbers on the grocery store checkouts, even though she had not yet taught him how to read numbers. At the age of 10, Jeremy informed Lori and her husband Barry that he wanted to be a nuclear physicist. “That’s great, son. What’s that?” Lori remembers asking him. When Jeremy was in middle school, a child psychologist tested his intellectual abilities, and he scored off the charts. He was bumped ahead a grade into Yale Secondary in Abbotsford. At the age of 16, Jeremy earned a bronze medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad in England. Fast forward five years, and Jeremy is continuing to astound his parents – and others – with his talents. The 2009 graduate of Yale Secondary leaves this week for Stanford, Calif., where he will begin a five-year PhD program in applied sciences at the prestigious Stanford University. All his costs, including tuition and stipend, will be covered for the program, after Witmer reContinued on A4

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