Manchester Junior-Senior High School Valedictorian, Salutatorian Named
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Corrie Osborne and Allison Smith have been named valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2016 at Manchester Junior-Senior High School. Osborne has a grade point average of 4.18 and Smith has a 4.15 grade point average after seven semesters. Osborne has been commended as a National Merit Scholar and earned Academic Excellence and Highest Honor Roll honors for four years of high school. As a member of the National Honor Society, she served as the chapter president this year. She participated in the Germany Exchange, Science Olympiad, 7:27 and Di Cantanti choirs, and was state finalist in the Stock Market Game. She has also participated in school and church youth group musicals. She is one of the founding members of the Manchester Early Learning Center building project that has raised over $1.2 million to date. She has also hosted students from El Salvador and has attended the Christian Citizenship Seminar in Washington, D.C., for three years. Athletically, Smith played volleyball four years and was a member of the swim team four years and track team for two years while in high school and earned the Squire Award three times and the Rotary Mental Attitude Award in Swimming. She was named TRC Academic All-Conference for two years in volleyball and swimming. After high school graduation with an academic honors diploma, Osborne plans to attend Goshen College to major in biology and Spanish. She hopes to continue to medical school with plans of becoming a physician. She is the daughter of Jeff and Maria Osborne. Her grandparents include Alice and Gary Lehman, Lorna and Bob Mynsberge, and Phil Osborne and Sue Lafferty. Smith has earned academic excellence and highest honor roll all four years. She has been a member of Science Olympiad team, earning a state medal. She has also participated in National Honor Society, Art Club, Best of the Best and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Recently, she was selected to attend the Molecular Medicine in Action Symposium conducted by the Indiana University of Medicine. Athletically, Smith has participated in tennis for four years, soccer for two years, volleyball for one year and swimming for three years. She has been awarded the Rotary Mental Attitude in tennis, Heart and Spirit Award in tennis and the Squire Award for swimming. She has earned TRC All-Conference award for tennis and TRC Academic All-Conference for two years in all three sports. In community and church activities, Smith has volunteered in the church sound booth, at the WISE conference and for a Kentucky mission trip. After graduating with an academic honors diploma, she plans to attend Huntington University to study biology and minor in art. She will also play tennis at Huntington. She then plans to go to graduate school to study environmental science and conservation or marine biology. Smith is the daughter of Mark and Nancy Smith. Her grandparents include Rinault and Shirley Ring and the late Jerome and Oneida Smith.
