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Lakin--Jayce Stabel
Published 5/26/2011 in Youth In Excellence
After moving from Tecumseh, Okla., Jayce Stabel finished a nine-year stint in Lakin's schools with a 4.0 grade-point average, which he maintained throughout his time at Lakin High School.The KU Honors Scholar was also on the Principal's Honor Roll and earned the Governor's Scholar Award for his academic success.
Stabel enjoyed his college chemistry class the most because he "enjoyed the challenge it presented," and he has a keen interest in the concepts and theories he was able to learn about and explore in class, he wrote in a questionnaire provided to The Telegram.
He struggled to keep interested in his college government class, though, because "the literature involved with the class was very tiresome."
Stabel participated in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for a year, and also ran track throughout high school and was on the school's football team for three years. His two years as part of the school's scholar's bowl team provided Stabel some of his fondest memories of high school.
"Any of the state events I have participated in (are memorable)," he wrote. "My freshman and sophomore years, I had a lot of fun at state scholar's bowl when my team took second place both times."
He considers himself a bit of a thrill seeker, and enjoys flying his airplane, riding motorcycles, pole vaulting, camping, scuba diving, skiing and riding horses.
Stabel plans to major in Feed Science and Management at Kansas State University, and hopes to eventually become an animal nutritionist to incorporate his agricultural background and love of modern science.
He invites his fellow graduates to remember both the lessons learned inside and outside the classroom, but is not overly concerned with what his classmates may think of him.
"I'll be remembered one way or another, but it's who we become not who we were that counts," Stabel said.
His advice to incoming high school students?
"If you never try, you will never succeed, and those people who have never failed have never tried either," he wrote.
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