Leftovers from top student interviews

It was my privilege to write the story on our co-valedictorians and the salutatorian. The valedictorians gave me way more than I could use, and the salutatorian was truly a young man of few words.
There were four or five mandatory questions for the honor students, but they also had the option of answering as many, or as few, of the other questions I posed. I wanted to share some of their additional responses to my questions.
Kelsie McColloch shared that she made it her goal when she was in the elementary school to be the top graduate, the valedictorian, when she graduated.
Way back in the dark ages, when I was in the second grade, I’m not sure I even knew what a ‘valedictorian’ was. I was just glad to have graduated from ‘See Spot Run’ to books that actually told a small story. I thought I had it made.