MARYSVILLE Kaleb Kuehn and Megan Crenshaw are the September Students of the Month for the Marysville School District. The pair were also coronated senior class Homecoming King and Queen on Oct. 23 at a Marysville-Pilchuck High School assembly.
Crenshaw is a tall senior with a 3.987 grade point average and a wide smile. An effective public speaker, she has earned a roster of achievements and awards, including the Crystal Lodge Junior of the Year award for 2005, nomination as a Hearst Scholar for the same year and several first, second- and third-place awards in music and literary composition from the Marysville PTA Council.
The senior was listed in Whos Who of Americas High School Students last year and has been a Washington State University Regents Scholar since 2005.
Theres so many things to say about her, said Mary Jane Miller of the Marysville Soroptimist, introducing Crenshaw to the Marysville School Board on Oct. 2. I came out of that interview, Wow!
Despite her academic achievements Crenshaw has also served many in the community, through being a Big Buddy at Pinewood Elementary School, volunteering at an Everett battered womens shelter and serving in a senior citizens home as well.
She has also been on her junior high school dance team and drama club, was in a production of Annie, and has a long list of social activities including dances, balls and carwash fundraisers.
A member of the M-P cross-country varsity team, Crenshaw is also a two-year veteran of the Cross Town Harriers. An M-P freshman mentor, she was junior class president last year and is senior class president for 2006. With her stratospheric GPA, membership in the National Honor Society is a given.
Aside from the classroom, she has been treasurer of the renowned M-PHS broadcast team, serving as treasurer of Pilchuck Media and producer of the Tommie Talk program from 2004 to the present.
She has a short-term goal of attending college at Duke or Stanford universities, and a long-term bent for the most exclusive club in the world.
I want to go into politics, Crenshaw told the school board. I want to be a United States senator and will probably start as a state senator and work my way up.
An able and effective speaker, Crenshaw served as a U.S. senator at the Girls State mock government exercise.
I had a ton of fun there, Crenshaw said. She got a lot of laughs when she pointed at the dais, saying Thats my mother, referring to Sherri Crenshaw, a member of the school board.
Shes a tough act to follow, said Tom King of the Marysville Kiwanis. He was introducing Kaleb Kuehn, the Kiwanis Student of the Month.
A bright young man with a wide smile, Kuehn is a scholar and an athlete who loaded up on advanced placement classes, including biology, English and composition, comparative politics, math and three years of German. The latter came in handy when he toured the Teutonic country as part of the 2006 Region IV National Olympic Development Program U18 mens soccer team.
It was the experience of a lifetime, Kuehn said, describing how his team played professional, semi-pro and state teams during the trip. Knowing the language made all the difference in relating to other people.
Kuehn will combine his love of sports with academics, as he is planning on being a physical therapist after studying sports medicine at a four-year college, probably the University of Portland or Barry University.
Until then he will be working on what he described as getting ready for all that stuff thats going to be hitting me down the road.
He should be OK: Kuehn was ASB president at Marysville Junior High School and has a slew of community involvement projects and leadership positions in his past. His rap sheet includes fundraising with the Starlight Foundation, the United Methodist Church youth group food bank, a Toys for Tots food drive and a bunch of others.
His 3.71 GPA earned him a slot on the National Honor Society, but his athletic achievements would take too much newsprint to list. A selection includes him being named the M-P soccer teams most valuable player for 2006, lettering in varsity football in 2004 and 2005, and a string of selections as First Team goalkeeper for the All Wesco 4A teams for 2004, 2005, 2006. He was selected as the Heralds boys soccer player of the week for April 2006.