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Gallant graduate.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
At the conclusion of the 2007-2008 academic year, three graduating seniors at Madeira High School in Ohio were in a virtual three-way tie for having the highest grade point average. But Andrew Stoffel, with a 4.548 GPA, was .019 (19 thousandths of a point!) ahead of his two nearest competitors, Victoria "Tori" Neuman and Ashley Paluta.
Andrew believed that his two classmates were equally hardworking, deserving students, and that his infinitesimal advantage over the others could be chalked up to the fact that his schedule had been a bit easier. So he approached Madeira principal Chris Mate and asked if all three could be named valedictorians.
"Andy did come to see me and felt like both the other two kids had taken the same kind of rigorous schedule that he had taken, and they were always in his classes," Mate told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "He felt like it was a quirk of the system here or there that they didn't end up valedictorian."
"He felt like he wanted to be inclusive and include them as valedictorians. It was out of his generous heart that he wanted to make that gesture, and we felt that that was ...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire March 14, 2006 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 2, 1996 700+ words
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 21, 2005 700+ words
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- Oberlin College receives $5 million for jazz facility.(Brief article)
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- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Taylor, Mark January 15, 2001 700+ words
...board. The $2 million barely dented Oberlin College's $600 million endowment. But for...gift) was a very gracious thing for Oberlin College to do,'' Oley says. ``Oberlin College, the city of Oberlin and Community...
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...L.P. Markowitz and colleagues, Oberlin College (see also Ethnic Research). The...information, contact L.P. Markowitz, Oberlin College, Dept. of Polit, 10 N Prof St...Life Sciences, Ethnic Research, Oberlin College. This article was prepared by Science...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 21, 2005 700+ words
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- Oberlin College: Oberlin College students meet with Coke execs.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire May 20, 2005 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, Gallant graduate.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)