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Tillamook High School
With just one minute between their births and 38 thousandths separating their GPA, we introduce this year’s Valedictorian Franklin Weeks and Salutatorian Bowen Weeks.
Valedictorian Franklin Weeks The Tillamook High School Class of 2023 Valedictorian with a 4.5522 GPA is Franklin Weeks. Frank is planning on entering the architectural design and engineering field. He loves shopping at Goodwill! According to his mom Tina, they hit every Goodwill possible! Frank also loves soccer, swimming, Harry Potter movies, plants, pottery, snow skiing, and travel. Frank is always busy and involved in every activity.
Salutatorian Bowen Weeks The Tillamook High School Class of 2023 Salutatorian with 4.5484 GPA is Bowen Weeks. Bowen loves computers, and is also a proficient shopper at Goodwill. He also enjoys skateboarding, making skateboard ramp additions, water and snow skiing, playing soccer, and being outside. Bowen plans on majoring in computer science after high school.
Neah-Kah-Nie High School Valedictorian Samantha Swan Neah-Kah-Nie High School Graduating Class of 2023 Valedictorian is Samantha Swan with a 4.5 weighted GPA.She plans to go to University of Oregon for Journalism. She completed her senior project and has been doing an internship with the Headlight Herald and writing some articles. Samantha was also Vice president of the Neah-Kah-Nie High School student body.
Salutatorian Cole Brown Neah-Kah-Nie High School Graduating Class of 2023 Salutatorian is Cole Brown with a 4.4 weighted GPA. Cole plans to go to OSU for construction management. He is getting a real estate brokers license. He also ran cross country all four years and did speech and debate his freshman year. He went to Costa Rica to learn Spanish as a foreign exchange student for half a summer as well. His Senior project was to do a series of podcasts over a wide variety of topics. Cole has been active in extracurricular activities and student government.