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Monday, April 4, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Valedictorian honors taken from student
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A student driven from Yugoslavia by ethnic conflict got a lesson in Southern inhospitality when a rural school board ruled her ineligible to be valedictorian.
When the Crawford County Board of Education discovered Adelina Kabashi had the highest grade point average in her class, it gave the honor to the second-place student and made plans to require future valedictorians to be county residents for at least two years.
"It's not the first time I've seen how life can be harsh on you," said Kabashi, an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, a tense Serbian province in the former Yugoslavia.
Kabashi had a 95.3 grade point average on a scale of 100. She topped 67 other seniors at Crawford County High School in Roberta.
The 18-year-old has been a student at the school since September 1992. She couldn't afford to join a formal student exchange program,
but a counselor at the school, Sue Thornton, heard of her dilemma and invited her to come to Georgia. Thornton financially supported Kabashi and is now her legal guardian.
Kabashi's school transcripts from Kosovo simply said "excellent" for all subjects. Crawford school officials gave her a 95 for each "excellent," giving her the second highest grades in the class.
She had higher grades than Connie Moncrief at the end of the winter semester, the last set of grades that count toward the honors. Moncrief's parents and the parents of student Bridgette Blasingane complained that their daughters were entitled to be valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.
"How can they go in there and say A is automatically a 95?" said Joyce Moncrief, Connie's mother. "Connie kept her grade-point average since the first of the year and all of a sudden it's not first anymore? I
don't feel all this was done right."
The school board agreed and two weeks ago decided that school officials had inflated Kabashi's grades when she transferred. The board made Moncrief valedictorian, Blasingame salutatorian and is giving Kabashi the consolation prize of an honorable mention award for graduation in June.
"It's unjust because they didn't think about how I felt about it," Kabashi said in an interview Friday. "They didn't consider they were taking something from somebody else. I don't think it was honest and fairly done."
The school board voted 3-1 to declare Moncrief valedictorian. Some members said they interpreted school system rules as saying only a student who has been in the county from grades nine through 12 can be valedictorian.
Kabashi said she is upset at those who cost her the honor of valedictorian but is trying to move on.
PIEDMONT, Ala. — Thirteen-year-old Marcus Woods fitted in his wheelchair and shivered in the predawn chill. He had insisted on attending Easter sunrise service at the church where he lost half his family a week earlier.
"I just wanted to be here," he said softly.
The Associated Press
His father, Buddy, and 9-year-old sister, Amy, were among 20 people killed when a tornado leveled the Goshen United Methodist Church during Palm Sunday services last week.
Worshipers gather in church's ruins
Marcus, who tried to pull his little sister out of the rubble, suffered a badly bruised right knee. His mother is still in intensive care; she suffered a crushed pelvis and broken legs.
As much as a celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection, yesterday's half-hour service was an emotional reunion with tears and lengthy hugs.
About 200 people attended, sitting on folding chairs in the parking lot of the ruined church.
ioners, some for the first time since the tornado. Clem's dress was dark red, her lace collar white and her forehead and eyes purple and crimson.
The Rev. Kelly Clem greeted parisher church. Flowers and stacks of cards and letters also have arrived.
Battered by whirling bricks, the 34-year-old pastor lost her 4-year-old daughter, Hannah, one of six children killed while waiting to participate in an Easter program.
Friends and relatives took turns hugging her and her 2-year-old daughter, Sarah.
"There's no place I'd rather be today." Clem said.
Clem presented the children with wrapped Easter baskets, among the many donations of money, supplies and children's gifts that have streamed in from around the country.
"Do you know how many people love you?" she asked.
"That's an understatement," Clem replied.
"A lot?" suggested one child.
The wooden cross behind her pulpit was made last week by a friend she hadn't seen in years, she said, and four new stained glass windows that made a backdrop were sent by another church. Flowers and stacks of cards and letters also have arrived.
"I feel as if we're like a symbol of hopereight now," Clemsa said afterward. She pledged to rebuild the northeastern Alabama church, the hardest-hit site in the series of tornadoes and storms that killed at least 44 people across the Southeast.
For parishioners, the service was a confrontation with traumatic memories.
Eight-year-old Michelle Noah's chin trembled and tears filled her eyes. Her broken leg was propped on the folding chair in front of her.
"It just looks scary to me now," she said, staring at the remains of the low-slung red-brick church.
Carol Scroggin, the chair director who had just led a hymn when the tornado hit, said the Easter service selections were chosen carefully from congregation members' requests.
And all sang: "Bind us together,
Lord. Bind us together with love."
a soloist sang: "We are standing on holy ground. And I know that there are angels all around."
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