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Dighton--Paul Fraley
Published 5/26/2011 in Youth In Excellence
Dighton High School graduating senior Paul Fraley said "I can't do it," is not a reason to not do something."It's just an excuse. I recommend erasing that phrase from your vocabulary," Fraley wrote in a questionnaire provided to The Telegram.
The high school senior is graduating this spring with a 3.93 grade-point average and other honors he's earned over the years, including high honor roll, honor graduate and National Merit Commended Student.
The graduating senior, who has attended Dighton schools for seven years, said physics was his most loved, yet least favorite class.
"(It way my favorite) because we learned new things and got to see how it all worked together," Fraley wrote. "(It was also my) least favorite class because it was a very demanding class that did not forgive a moment of slacking."
Fraley also participated in cross country, was manager of the volleyball team, participated in scholar's bowl, forensics, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, National Honor Society, band and vocal music.
The Dighton senior plans to major in biology with an emphasis in pre-medicine at Pittsburg State University this fall. He already has plans to further his education in medical school and join the U.S. Army in the hopes of becoming a doctor in the Army Medical Corps.
To his fellow graduates, Fraley said he'd like them to get out and see the world outside their small towns — similar to his aspirations.
"Don't stay in your hometown forever," Fraley wrote. "Everyone should go somewhere and do something at least once in their life so they can experience what life is like outside small-town USA."
In addition, being remembered by his fellow graduates as a "genius wouldn't be half bad either," he jokingly wrote.
"I want to be remembered as the guy who had the judgment to not do anything too stupid, but the will to go out there and do something fun," Fraley wrote.
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