Hank loves history, and his teachers think someday he might make some
John Bogert catches up with a bright boy he met years ago while talking to a second-grade class. Now the editor of the student newspaper at Redondo Union, our columnist finds the 17-year-old living up to his potential.
Hank loves history. He got a perfect score on his AP European history test, and pretty much the same on nine others. Over the summer he decided that all the history he picked up in Mrs. Julie Ferron’s class could be augmented with words on a “pimp pope” and the bizarre fears of powerful freaks and presented as a free AP history podcast.“I love history,” said Hank , who this year is shooting for 51 seconds flat in the 400 - meter run. “I wanted to make it so a girl like my 15-year-old sister, Maggie — a real science type — would enjoy the subject, too.”
Actually, Hank loves so many things and in such depth it’s hard to cover it all. This is nothing new. Back at Alta Vista teachers had him pegged as a writer, a natural. Later, at Parras Middle School, he’d be named Student of the Year and be described by one teacher as future presidential material, adding, “He stands out for his spark and verve, for his insight and creativity. He’s like a fire burning on a dark prairie.”
Read the column here.