By: Abi Lenze & Bradley Dillon
This month, we chose to highlight a student and staff member who makes Southeast better every day by uplifting others. Luci Crawford, a freshman at Southeast High School, brings light to every room she enters while still remaining a hard-worker. Lori Walden, one of Southeast High School’s lunch ladies, makes it her mission to make students feel seen, even during something as mundane as getting school lunch.
Crawford moved to Ohio from Texas this past summer, over 19 hours away from her friends. She faced this transition with incredible perseverance, immediately joining multiple clubs and sports. Since the school year started, Crawford has participated in tennis, football and basketball cheerleading, SADD, Leos Club, FFA, FCCLA, and FCS. While being thoroughly involved in extra curricular activities, Crawford continues to maintain a 4.0 grade point average and takes multiple classes above her grade level. When asked what her biggest motivator was, she responded simply with “my friends”. Crawford has big goals for after high school, planning to go to college for a bachelors in social science before going to the United Kingdom and getting a degree in political science. She will then return home and work as a foreign affairs officer. Crawford is an incredible example of better every day.
Walden makes it her mission to make students feel welcome and seen when they walk through the lunch line. Her encouraging words and helpful attitude is what’s best about her. Walden attended high school here at Southeast so being a pirate is a part of her blood. It is heartwarming to hear how she continues to be a part of the community. Having worked here since 2007, Walden has invested a lot of time and care into Southeast. She is part of a tight knit culture here. Walden does most of her work behind the scenes, but what she does is as important as any other job. She is the epitome of what SHS staff is about. Walden is just one example of the dedicated staff here at Southeast High School.
Both of these Pirates combine kindness and hard work to create a better environment here at Southeast High School. We appreciate all you do for us, go Pirates
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