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The Selection Process
by Plain Dealer staff
Tuesday May 06, 2008, 6:16 PM
Clockwise, from top left, our distinguished panel of Senior Standouts judges: James F. Spence, president/CEO, GradsNet Foundation; Belinda Miles, president, Eastern Campus Cuyahoga Community College; Laura Mimura, vice president marketing and communications, KeyBank; Jeffrey Bhasin, former Senior Standout, student at Case Western Reserve University and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic; Jennifer Thomas, director, Civic Innovation Lab. The Selection Process
Commitment, persistence, passion, character, courage, dedication. These are some of the words our Senior Standouts judges used to describe the students they selected as most remarkable from a group of extraordinary nominees. All the students' resumes tout exemplary academic records, demonstrated leadership in school and established commitments in their communities.
Principals from 141 schools across eight Northeast Ohio counties submitted the names of 268 students as Senior Standouts. Judges from within The Plain Dealer, working in teams, reviewed the applications and narrowed the field to the top 84.
Five judges from the community (See photo above) further defined the group, then met to discuss and debate the selection of our 10 Head of the Class and 20 Honor Roll winners.
We als pay tribute to 54 students on the Merit Roll. The remaining 184 nominees shine as members of the Honorable Mention scroll.
Senior Standouts, stories, video and audio, is available online at cleveland.com/seniorstandouts.
Section editor
Ellen Stein Burbach
Copy editor
Sue Walton
Cover photo illustration and Head of the Class portraits
Andrea Levy
Design editors
David Kordalski ,Tim Graham
Writers
Brian Albrecht, Stan Donaldson, Jennifer Gonz lez, Ellen Jan Kleinerman, Maggi Martin, Terry Oblander, Janet Okoben, Tom Ott, V. David Sartin, Grant Segall, Jesse Tinsley, Angela Townsend and Brie Zeltner.
Photography
Some of the students' photos are courtesy of Rodney L. Brown, Ellie Vayo Photography Inc. and Woodard Photographic.
Support staff
Loreen Fletcher Oiler, Cynthia Baecker, Sandi Boyd, Allison Carey, Ron Rollins
Congratulations to all the students who have excelled in their studies. Way to go!
What a collection of losers, all Affirmation Action grads no doubt. Not one of them looks like they came within a hundred miles of running a successful business. The goofy looking white guy has done even less than the AA’s.
The PD lemmings are carrying this diversity thing right off the edge of the cliff. How about a selection committee that is not overrun with surface diversity but formed of actual successes in life without the privileged of AA
The women on the selection might do all the young women an immense favor by telling them not to waste years of their lives and thousands of dollars by fooling around in college. Instead the young ladies should find a good hard working morally upstanding man. Marry him and have children. Be a good wife and mother, the road to true happiness.
And thanks for nothing Rodney L. Brown, Ellie Vayo Photography Inc. and Woodard Photographic, these are the dumbest photos I’ve ever seen of HS kids. Next time LaBron James wants a photo him looking stupid he’ll call you.
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