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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 2000
Page
10
The Gazette profiles several Eastern Iowa high school seniors from the Class of 2000. Each snapshot highlights a student praised by principals, illustrating a generation ready to enter adulthood and the world beyond school.
Center Point-Urbana High School senior Eric Zieser, top five graduate among 70, balances farm duties with school, helping harvest 1000 acres and feed cattle. He aims to study agricultural business at Kirkwood CC then Iowa State University, while embracing his Mexican heritage and school activities.
Diana Brandt 18 a four sport Central City High School senior and valedictorian of the 39 member class of 2000 graduates praised her parents as role models and plans to study athletic training at the University of Iowa. She hopes to stay in Iowa after college and work in a clinic or with a sports team. Brandt helped start a Win with Wellness program at the school culminating in a danceathon that raised 880 for Catholic Charities.
Melissa Geers, 17, graduates from North Linn High School with 51 classmates and plans a two year accounting degree at Hamilton College Cedar Rapids before pursuing CPA certification. She played basketball briefly, works at Econofoods, and helps with family duties as her mother battles multiple sclerosis.
Dan Blythe 18 graduates from Springville High School and will attend Marquette University before returning to Iowa with an engineering degree. He emphasizes community service, leadership, and balancing academics with activities in football baseball basketball track drama band choir National Honor Society and as valedictorian. He plans to pursue opportunities in Milwaukee before rejoining family in Iowa.
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