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College Day 2008 May 6, 2008
Any break from uniform days are happily welcomed at Parish, and May 1 quickly has become one of the school's favorite exemptions. For just its second graduating class, Parish seniors wear college shirts representing their university choice on the first of May, the deadline to inform colleges of a decision after receiving admission notice. Some students still await decision from college admission departments.
The choices range geographically from California to Maine, with Iowa and Indiana in between. Parish seniors were showing their new colors with shirts from Pepperdine, George Washington, Dordt College (IA), Indiana, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor among the dozens of choices.
Longtime friends and Parish classmates Lucy Keith and Alex Kaiser find themselves wearing opposing colors now. Keith will attend Texas and play for the women's soccer team. Kaiser, a kicker on Parish's football team who also led Parish's soccer team to the TAPPS Class 5A state tournament, will attend Oklahoma.
"I've already been practicing booing the Longhorns," Kaiser said.
Brooke Thoele and Carolyn Syer also will attend Texas. Collin Ozanus is another future Sooner. Cozette Kale decided on Vanderbilt, and Jonathan Pirkey selected Northwestern.
Six Parish students will be attending Baylor.
'It wasn't something we talked about," said Polette Galvan. "The number of us just kept getting bigger."
Senior Kat Herriman, who moved to North Dallas from Boston, will be going back to the Northeast to attend Colby College Museum of Art in Maine. But first Herriman will head to France to start her first semester.
Ryan Winspear (Merchant Marine), Miguel Noyola (Navy) and Cecilio Carter (Air Force) plan to attend U.S. military academies. Alex Dumas received a scholarship to Scripps College in California
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